The pure tenor quality of the voice of Harold Montgomery gives a special interpretation to the grand old hymn The Old Rugged Cross!

You don't really love that guy you make it with now do you?!?

What we want and what we need has been confused!

I got Fig Dish's "Unleash the Cracken" album from some random college event, never imagined that they ever did anything else.  Who knew?

in the category of Long and Respected Career, Wrote Hits for Others, Never a Top Seller for His Own Records — John Hiatt

Man.  Buzz officially killed.  Thanks.

Roger CLYNE (and the Peacemakers).  A friend of mine in New Mexico is an evangelist for them, musta seen em a dozen times by now, and they're undeniably catchy and hooky and clever and all that.  I love that first album, and they were as big as a 1+1/2 hit wonder might be, but I'm not totally shocked they aren't an…

Agreed and an Amen on half your list, gonna check out the other half now!

That Penn/Mann show sounds fantastic.

Boy, people here are young.  Trust me twenty-somethings, Dire Straits are HUGE.

Old 97s = great band /= band that I would expect to be big hitmakers.

This was the first band that came to mind for me, too.  Aside from Fly Me Courageous I wasn't any kind of fan, but their sound seemed ripe for the big time.  And Atlanta rock radio couldn't pump them any harder as the Next Big Thing.  Did they have that kind of support nationally?

Alien in a drive-in double-feature following Superman.  My friend Mark and I sat in the back seat of the station wagon, his Mom and my Mom sat up front.  I think they figured we'd be asleep by the time the chests started exploding.  Umm, nope.  Wow, that was awesome/gross.

Spent 3 years at the Borders Buckhead (Atlanta - store #15) in the late 90s.  Chose to work there over the B&N down the road because Borders didn't make you wear a collared shirt or a standardized name tag.  Which meant I wasn't succumbing to the Man.

I was the asst events manager for that store, and I remember that performance pretty well.  Always felt weird hosting the musical acts in that space.  There just wasn't an appropriate stage or seating area.  It was a little less awkward for author events, but even in the cafe you couldn't set up properly for a band.