Oh yeah, hey Third Man and Revenant: if, for some reason, halfway through development of Volume 2, you come up with a new great idea for it but can’t quite keep it in the same price range as Volume 1, I am TOTALLY willing to pay more than $400 for it. Thanks for putting out such an excellent Volume 1; I expect nothing less in Volume 2.

Thanks for the Hulu link. I was able to check it out, finally. It was really good, a lot of good stuff about Paramount. Every time I see something about Paramount I wish it would go on for hours and hours. On a side note, the name of the song might be “I Want Jesus to Talk with Me” by Homer Quincy Smith but when I listen to it, I hear him say “I want Jesus to walk with me” throughout the entire song. During the Charlie Rose video (after they listened to a segment of the song) it was nice to see Jack stumble at one point and say “walk;” then he corrected himself and said “talk.” Just glad to have it confirmed that I’m not the only one hearing “walk” :)

http://www.hulu.com/watch/576814 Hey! Here is the link to the Charlie Rose Paramount Interview for folks who want to have another look. I have some opinions about this dialogue but I will save them for char…

Just watched the #18 Raconteurs DVD and the Charlie Rose interview- today is a great day!!

Thanks Kali Durga! Found it thanks to you ;-)

extra note/after some research: from www.youtube.com [Pinetop Perkins — How Long Blues] uploaded on December 22, 2010…a little bit of history about Pinetop and Earl Hooker “completed a session for Sam Phillips famous Sun Records in 1953”. Hint, hint, TMR…I would really love any of Pinetops’s music on vinyl. Thanks for stirring up some good old memories.

MOON72 thanks for the saying in French and Kali Durga thanks for the info to find the interview. All the blues talk reminds me of seeing Pintop Perkins at a blues club in Cleveland the weekend the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum opened up there in September of 1995. The blues band consisted of black men and one white man. I was pretty impressed with Pintop’s piano playing and after the show bought some of his music and got him to autograph it. I asked him his age at the time and he said he was 82. Over a decade later I saw him on tv in a band that included B.B. King (who I’ve seen in concert about 5 times) performing at one of those president’s award ceremonies. I was really surprised that Pintop Perkins was still alive. I can say having seen him performing in person was a priceless experience. He was born July 7, 1913 and died March 21, 2011 at age 97…only 3 and 1/2 months shy of what would have been his 98th birthday.

What’s most compelling, though, are the correlations that Jack draws between here and there and now, between music and film, from one musician to another, the way he tries to imagine it from the perspective of people of the time… That encompassing perspective and way of describing it is the same thing that makes Scott Blackwood’s text in the big red book so engaging.

Wish that video clip of Ethel Waters at the beginning had been a tad longer. And that the interview had been, as well. I’ve still got so many questions about how this project came about and what other artists or tracks really move Jack and Mr. Blackwood. But every little bit like this makes me so happy all over again to have taken the plunge into this set.

Aaaand, Charlie Rose’s tweet just announced that this conversation is on Bloomberg TV tonight at 8 & 10 ET and it seems to stream “live” on the site— http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/