Hey, Kyle and Erik, just want to say thank you for actually putting a couple minutes of thought into these reviews.  Even with travel deadlines and stuff there's still more here than Rabin ever had in his Simpsons reviews.  They're real fun to read.

I guess I should give it another shot; it just seemed like I had heard most of the songs better in other places - and Richard really hadn't found his solo voice yet.  I could be wrong, though.

I saw him do 1000 years at the Boulder Theater, but have never caught him at Chautauqua - and won't tonight, damn it!  (but have an awesome time).

If you can find Mirror Blue it's pretty brilliant as well.  I'm no fan of what Mitchell Froom did to Thompson's records, but he's held in check on Mirror Blue - and there's not really a bad song in the bunch.

Strangely enough, my story's the other way around; I tried to introduce my dad to Thompson's music.  I bought one that I hadn't listened to, and what might be his worst album (Small Town Romance - an incredibly muddy live recording with only a great version of "Genesis Hall" to redeem it).  He was obviously not bowled…

My favorite Thompson "rockers" are on Sunnyvista - "Borrowed Time" and "You're Gonna Need Somebody."  Great first side - the second kinda drags as far as I'm concerned.

"Calvary Cross" is gorgeous, and "Has He Got a Friend for Me" is one of Linda's greatest showcases.

That's probably right - "flamed out rather spectacularly on National Television" sounds a little more dramatic than a failed pilot.

And I don't think he's been around long enough to know Kapatch and Oswalt when they weren't featured comedians.

I was thinking Tom Rhodes, but I wiki'd him, and he hasn't necessarily had a bad career post-"Mr. Rhodes" - just not in the U.S.A.

Bitching about these first two episodes is totally in bounds.  They're wildly uneven - even more so if you're not a mid-70's Paul Simon fan (and a lot of us aren't).

Sorta.  For as much as Rabin phoned it in the past three years-or-so (and thank god they picked up Erik Adams and Kyle Ryan to do those classic Simpsons reviews; I can finally gain insight into an episode instead of a lazy plot description) his reviews of classic era SNL were some of his best writing for the site.  I…

Yeah, I mean everybody knows there were about nine good minutes to High Anxiety.

Ray Price is my favorite country singer voice-wise.  His material was more hit-or-miss than Jones however, and he basically disappeared from the scene after 1980.

Gene Watson, although he was never as huge, has a brilliant country voice.

"The Grand Tour" is brilliant.  I love "The Door" and "When the Grass Grows Over Me."  There's an album track called "I Know" that punches me in the face whenever I hear it (it's on youtube).  Of course, nobody has or ever will beat his performance of "He Stopped Loving Her Today."

Holy shit.

Some of Shelby Lynne's early recordings were with Jones.  Obviously she learned from the best.

But he also wrote the script for Patton, so 5 out of 6.

As far as I can tell that's Record Store Day in a nutshell.