NONKINSENSE

First to fall over when the atmosphere is less than perfect
Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect
You live you life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

You say you want to spend the winter in Firenza
You're so afraid to catch a dose of influenza
You live your life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine

Now if I tell you that you suffer from delusions
You pay your analyst to reach the same conclusions
You live your life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine
Canary in a coalmine

First to fall over when the atmosphere is less than perfect
Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect
You live your life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

ARTIST: Steve Miller
TITLE: Jet Airliner
Lyrics and Chords


Leavin' home, out on the road
I've been down before
Ridin' along on this big ol' jet plane
I've been thinkin' about my home

/ C - F C / F - C - / - - - - / F - C - /

But my love light seems so far away
And I feel like it's all been done
Somebody's try'n' to make stay
You know, I've got to be movin' on, oh

/ C - - - / Bb F C - / - - - - / Bb F C - /

{Refrain}
Big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Oh, big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay

/ Bb F C - / / / /

Good bye to all my friends at home
Good bye to people I've trusted
I've got to go out and make my way
I might get rich, you know, I might get busted

But my heart keeps callin' me backwards
As I get on the seven-oh-seven
Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes
You know, you got to go through hell before you get to heaven

{Refrain}

Touchin' down in New England town
Feel the heat comin' down
I've got to keep on keepin' on
You know, the big wheel keeps a-spinnin' around

And I'm goin' with some hesitation
You know that I can surely see
That I don't want to get caught up in any of that
Funky shit goin' down in the city

{Refrain}

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
{Refrain}

Oh, big ol' jet airliner
Carry me to my home
Oh, big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's there that I belong

Ira,
 I was greatly saddened to read today about the deaths of three

 music pioneers: John Herald, Eugene Record and Long John Baldry.

 I had the pleasure of seeing John Herald at the Bottom Line leading

 the crowd through his "Jon the Generator" (his take on John the Revelator)

 and he also wrote a beautiful song about the last passenger pigeon in captivity

at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1911. John Herald was a Bluegrass/Folk pioneer. Eugene Record led, in IMHO,

the best of the 70's smooth soul bands, the Chi-Lites. He pioneered

the smooth vocal to recitation to falsetto vocal style and 

was a great songwriter. My favorite is "Have You Seen Her?".

 Again, IMHO, Long John Baldry was as much a pioneer of the 

early 60's British Blues/R'N'B scene as Cyril Davies or Alexis 

Korner. I came across a Steampacket album 

(with Rod Stewart, Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll) that kicks ass. My favorite Long John Balry song is (of course) "Don't Lay No Boogie-Woogie On The King Of Rock'N'Roll". RIP to three pioneers.
                         Donny

Ira,
 Check out Long John Baldry's website. 

There are various MP3s under CD Rooms (sic) and Discography 

including a complete album (Good To Be Alive).

               Donny

Apple Plants a Seed to Help Raise Podcasting
By Rob PegoraroSunday, July 24, 2005; Page F09
What, you don't have a podcast yet?
That's this year's version of, "What, you don't have a blog yet?" Podcasts -- downloadable audio clips that you can listen to on your computer or on a digital music player such as an iPod -- are riding an extraordinary wave of hype.
Fast Forward Podcast


Where blogs are supposed to make newspapers obsolete, podcasts are supposed to turn radio into a dusty fossil.
And just as people last year were rushing to launch their own journals on the Web, folks are now jumping into podcasting. Former senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards has a podcast, and so does Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans.
Given time, podcasts may very well live up to the most optimistic predictions offered about them. For now, though, the programming available in the pod-verse teems with both brilliance and boredom. The software needed to tune into this bounty also could use more work -- even after the improvements in Apple's new version of its iTunes music program.
The basic idea behind podcasting is to work around the annoying reality that until we get universal broadband Internet access, you can't tune into Internet radio in most of the places you'd like to.
Podcasters abandon real-time streaming over the Internet in favor of recording a program in advance, then letting users download it and listen to it on their own time. A podcast is essentially shrink-wrapped radio, almost always in the form of an MP3 audio file.
You can listen to that right in your Web browser, you can download it and play it on a computer later on, or you can copy it to an iPod or most other music players.
But listening to the wrong podcasts may leave you wondering why anybody bothers. It's not that mediocrity is so much more prevalent among podcasters than bloggers -- or newspaper reporters. It's just more obvious.
Simply speaking clearly and engagingly into a microphone is not always a natural skill. Podcasters can also routinely make rookie mistakes like forgetting to talk close enough to a microphone, or allowing feedback to screech into the recording.
Cleaning up the aural equivalent of typos -- "um," "er" and "uh" -- is far trickier in sound-recording software than in any word processor. Perhaps because editing after the fact takes so much time, many podcasters seem compelled to try to blitz through a podcast in a single take.
Scripts also often appear optional: Quite a few podcasts are ad-libbed -- even when their authors blather on for upwards of an hour.