San Quentin is the best place to start. It has three hits you'll want to hear to start off: Ring of Fire, Walk The Line, and Biy Named Sue. Unfortunately Folsom doesn't have those. For that alone it's a solid starting point.

When WWII Part One came out in 1939, I think pepole were mostly like — really? Another fucking grim "All Important Saga" after The Great Depression and GD: The New Deal? And one imagining ANOTHER World War? So it's unpopularity was really about timing, I think.

On Steven's Hyden's Next Music review
It took one quick cycle on Steven Hyden's Ipod to listen to Bon Iver's Where Trees Don't Whisper, the LPe follow-up to 2008's For Emma, For Ever Ago. But it took Hyden four long days and two stints in wifi coffee houses to write the review. Which raises the question: why has it…

Dave78 — the point was clear, and the Noam Chomsky of diet sodas is obviously Orange Drink, because that shit sounds like socialism.