Saw the P-Funk Allstars a couple months ago in New Haven
… with my son (13). It was an awesome show, but obviously a low-budget shadow of the past. Star Child has seen better days (the diaper is not very flattering at this point). They rocked the house, though. The crowd was way into it.

Law and Order: The Office Unit?

I thought Kara was channeling Leather Tuscadero.

Not just the instrumentals…
Everybody's commenting on the instrumentals, but Booker T. and the MGs *were* the Stax sound and played on a pile of great songs. "In the Midnight Hour", "Try a Little Tenderness", the list goes on and on. The thing that amazes me is that (like Motown) Stax would go on a tour and the…

Toad Suck Daze!
I'm jealous. I live in a very small town in Vermont. We don't have Toad Suck Daze. I wish we did.

Anthony Michael Hall would've been less of a reach.

I was hoping for "Fly Me to the Moon" or "Lady is a Tramp". I would've given extra credit if someone had thrown a "chick" into the lyrics. Ahh, Frank, we miss you.

Yummsh, I believe that Steve Van Zandt's neck was injured in a car accident. It is also the reason why he covers his hair with the scarves, or so I understand.

I thought Kanye was going for a Michael Sarver roughneck kind of a thing. It didn't work.

More love for Grace Zabriskie
She's so good on this show. I like that she seems to have taken Wanda under her wing and is going to complete her homicidal-sister-wife training.

The annoying blonde cooking instructor, but not until after the dark lord had made several of the others sweat it out.

@TomWaits

Or "Modern Sounds in Country Music" by Ray Charles. The area of overlap between Soul and Country is of particular interest to me, although it may not fit into Nathan's plan.

Should've also mentioned Townes Van Zandt, who was also mentioned in another post, who Steve Earle said "is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."

Don't forget Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams
Also Buddy & Julie Miller, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, etc. There's a ton of great music in this vein. Don't miss "Red Headed Stranger" when you cover Willie Nelson.

I went looking and couldn't find the reference, but I could've sworn that somewhere along the way Bones said that he was descended from *those* McCoys…

Agreed. I also assume that (since there is no results show scheduled after the wild card show) the judges will not only pick who gets to sing on the wild card show but which three contestants will advance.

Okay, not sure why this response got filtered, but (from the show's site):

From americanidol.com:

… and they all looked like they were going to put someone's eye out.