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Funkwhale and the MixRemix Radio Library

I wrote a program last night that navigates the folders in the Mixremix Radio Library and outputs a text file, mixremixlib.txt.

http://hairylarry.sdf.org/mixremixplaylists/mixremixlib.txt

It's really cool because it turns a bunch of music in a set of folders into a searchable text file where each item includes the elapsed time, the link to the source, and also the license info for Free Culture and Creative Commons music.

When I add music to the library, which I do all the time, I just run the program and upload the file and everything's updated.

I was proud of myself so I posted some links on mastodon.social and linernotes.club and took a little break to browse around a bit.

And I found this about Funkwhale.

So I linked on over.

https://funkwhale.audio/

“Funkwhale started as a personal project three years ago, in reponse to Grooveshark being shut down. As of today, new instances are popping up every week, the project is getting traction and attracting external contributions. What should you expect for the future of the project?”

• https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Announcements/funkwhale-past-present-and-future/

I searched around a while and found.

https://funkwhale.mastodon.host/

Where I joined and started playing with it. I uploaded the Free Culture NJHB albums and started to get it figured out. Posted a few questions on Mastodon

and the developer got right back to me.

”@hairylarry @goofy no genre search yet, we have an open issue for that : https://code.eliotberriot.com/funkwhale/funkwhale/issues/527

Licensing data should be available in the next version (cf https://code.eliotberriot.com/funkwhale/funkwhale/issues/308)"

So isn't that cool?

And I got to thinking. Wouldn't this be a great tool to host the Free Culture and Creative Commons music played on MixRemix Radio. Of course that's a lot of gigabytes and constantly growing so I would have to host it. Maybe funkwhale.mixremix.cc sometime in the future.

Think about that. What a resource for finding reusable music.

Also isn't the ability to embed mastodon posts in write.as great?

MixRemix Radio Daily Schedule Update

http://mixremix.cc

All times Central Time Broadcast day starts at 9:00 AM and runs 24 hours Show times are approximate. Some shows run under or over so we're running on blues time.

9:00 AM – Free Culture Mix – All Free Culture Music. CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC-0 (public domain) – an eclectic mix – can end with a podcast

12:00 AM – Delta Boogie Radio – a mix from deltaboogie.com/hifi – blues, jazz, roots

2:00 PM – LMAJazz – a mix from kgpl.org/lmajazz – jazz from the Live Music Archive

4:00 PM – KGPL For Deadheads – A mix from kgpl.org – The Grateful Dead, dead spinoffs, dead cover bands

5:00 PM – Hairy Larry Recordings – Concerts and studio recordings that Hairy Larry uploaded to the Live Music Archive.

7:00 PM – Democracy Now M-F

8:00 PM – Creative Commons Remix – Creative Commons, Free Culture, and Public Domain songs. All genres. Starts at 7:00 on weekends.

10:00 PM – Something Blue – One show each night. Many shows from the Live Music Archive. Many recorded by Hairy Larry. Some commercial releases.

11:00 PM – HairyLarryLand – A selection of songs from the HairyLarryLand label. All Creative Commons. Some Free Culture.

1:00 AM – Alive All Night – Full concerts from the Live Music Archive.

Eyesight To The Blind – Delta Legends at The Biscuit

John, Jeremy, and I got to play the King Biscuit Blues Festival again this year. This is the first video from our set. I have the whole set and I am working on more.

https://youtu.be/zUjHKU94_MM

Loren Seely shot the video on his tablet. I recorded the audio on my Zoom H6. Delta Legends played great. Face it. The Biscuit inspires us.

Here's a link to the audio recordings.

https://archive.org/details/hl2018-10-05

I posted some photos of John and Jeremy backstage/sidestage before the show at our website. I have some more pics now and some of my friends took pictures too so I plan on posting more when I can.

http://deltalegends.com

I'm already working on the video for “I'm Your Professor” and should have it up on Youtube soon.

Enjoy!

Elphonium

I wrote a descending ii V i exercise and then I turned it into a piece by adding a bridge. I called it “Elven Minuet”.

At my composition lesson Dr. Jenkins suggested that I give the right hand melody to vibes and the left hand harmony to marimbas. Kind of inspired by “Wood Sprites” on the Bebop Beatniks album.

So I thought I would hunt up some spoken word fantasy passage I could read over it, inspired by my reading from “Leaves Of Grass” on “Wood Sprites”.

As soon as I started to search for text to read my own super short fantasy story, “Elphonium” came to mind. It's a bit long but with some judicious editing I'm sure I could bring it to under two minutes while still delivering the story.

The story “Elphonium” was inspired by a great piece of artwork I found on deviantart.com by INDRIKoff who gave me permission to use it to illustrate the story. So I envision a multimedia presentation centered around this piece of art and including public domain fantasy art that follows the story.

The band would play the piece with “Elphonium” displayed on a screen behind them. Then when I started reading the slides would follow the story.

Now that's a cool idea.

My story “Elphonium” on SFF Short Stories. https://sffshortstories.com/?x=entry:entry170714-062937

INDRIKoff's “Elphonium” artwork on Deviant Art https://www.deviantart.com/indrikoff/art/Elphonium-689679937

The Bebop Beatniks album “Leaves” with “WoodSprites” https://archive.org/details/BebopBeatniks-Leaves

I played at the Johnny Cash Heritage Festival.

I know, you double checked and I wasn't on the bill. But the Zyndall Wayne Raney Band was playing so I took my harmonicas. First thing Doug Greeno asked me was “Did you bring your harps?” I've been sitting in with these guys since way back when they were Jeannie and The Guys. It always pays to be prepared.

I thought Doug would invite me up to play “All Over Again”, one of his favorite blues songs. I even had my G harp out and ready. But instead when Marcus kicked off a blues Doug told me I might as well come on up. They kept calling out keys so I kept playing. I think I played half the set. When they closed the show featuring Mike Geo on “Wipeout” I figured they didn't need me anymore and I went back to partying out front.

I got to tell you how good these guys are. They had fans come from Nebraska to hear them. That's a good long trip to hear some music. Of course, they stayed for the whole festival. But they heard them last year and they told me the reason they came back was to hear the Zyndall Wayne Raney Band play again.

They still have the big Johnny Cash Heritage Festival show this afternoon and I'm sure it will be great. KASU presented music in the Dyess Community Circle, nine bands on Thursday and Friday nights. Both nights were great. Every act was memorable. I got it all recorded on my Zoom H6. I'll know later today how the tapes came out. I have confidence that you will be hearing music from this festival on Arkansas Roots, Something Blue, and 6 Degrees Of The Delta.

Here's the link to the schedule.

http://johnnycashheritagefestival.com/music/

Johnny Cash Heritage Festival

October 18-20, 2018 – Dyess, Arkansas

I'll be recording Thursday and Friday for KASU so you can expect to hear some of this great music on Arkansas Roots, 6 Degrees Of The Delta, and Something Blue. The KASU shows are free so get in your car and drive. It's only an hour from Jonesboro and about the same from Memphis. The big show with the big stars is Saturday. Here's a link to the lineup.

http://johnnycashheritagefestival.com/music/

If you come Thursday or Friday be sure to say hi. I wish I could go Saturday too but I'm at the end of my rope energywise. It's been a busy fall.

aNONradio openmic

aNONradio is the icecast radio station on SDF, a Unix time sharing system. Volunteer DJs fill out the broadcast schedule with an eclectic mix of programming so, even for underground radio, it's out there. I'll put it this way, Something Blue is blues, jazz, and other roots music and it's kind of mainstream on aNONradio.

openmic runs from 10:00 pm to midnight CT every night or 3:00 – 5:00 UT if that's easier for you. You can listen here.

http://anonradio.net/listen/

And if you want to participate you can find everything you need right here.

http://anonradio.net/openmic/

You don't have to be an aNONradio DJ to icecast on openmic. But you're missing the fun unless you log onto SDF and go to the anonradio room in the SDF chat room on com. DJs and anyone can listen and chat about the music or whatever they're doing. So it's open chat to go along with openmic.

You can get a free SDF account here.

http://sdf.org/

They have paid accounts too but the free account is fine for chatting on com.

So you can listen to anonradio and starting at 10:00 CT it will be openmic. You can learn how to icecast and add your own favorites to the mix. And you can log onto SDF and chat with the DJs on com.

All of this is free.

See you there.

“Knocking Boots” now on CDBaby

The new NJHB CD, “Knocking Boots”, is now up at CDBaby where it can be downloaded cheap and heard for free.

https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/njhb12

On the HairyLarryLand website I say “buy download on CDBaby. Best way to support the artist.” You spend a bit, we get a bit, no plastic or postage.

Of course there are free downloads at the Internet Archive, which I guess, is the second best way to support the artist. Truth be told, I just want you to enjoy the music. You can get it free or pay a few cents, the choice is yours.

https://archive.org/details/hl2018-10-13

And if you want to buy the CD email hairylarry@deltaboogie.com. Ecopacks are $4.95. That's the CD and the artwork in a black envelope.

Or if you come to the next New Jazz In Jonesboro show at the Public Library at 7:00 pm on Saturday, November 10, I will be giving CDs away for free. Hear Bebop Beatniks and NJHB and pick up a free CD too.

Nothing wrong with that.

New NJHB CD from the New Jazz In Jonesboro Show on October 13.

Now up at the Live Music Archive at http://archive.org.

The music is just fine especially if you like vibes and piano working together like Modern Jazz Quartet. Also Sean and I did a little bit of scat singing and I even danced a little bit but, you know, you had to be there.

Here's the link. https://archive.org/details/hl2018-10-13

Here's the liner notes.

NJHB Knocking Boots New Jazz House Band New Jazz In Jonesboro October 13, 2018 Jonesboro Public Library Jonesboro, Arkansas

Song list

01 Low Earth Orbit 02 Sweatshirt 03 Knocking Boots 04 Breezes

Personnel

Al Clevenger – vibes Spencer Rawlins – bass Alex Washam – drums (1 and 4) Chris Issom – drums (1) Sean Cunningham – drums (2 and 3) and vocals (4) Hairy Larry – piano and vocals

Photos by Vivian Heyl Cover art by Gustavo Rezende, public domain

hll-1044 hairylarryland.com njhb.org

Recorded to my Zoom H6 with the midside mic attached.

Thanks to the Jonesboro Public Library for making the Round Room available and to the musicians and the audience for making this a successful event.

Damn we played a good show last night.

Common Time opened and really did a fantastic job. Josh Carter leads the band playing alto and he never misses a lick. The rhythm section is Spencer Rawlins, bass; Al Clevenger , piano; and Chris Issom, drums. They are also the rhythm section for the ASU Jazz Orchestra. Nuff said.

Then NJHB did it's usual wild thing playing 5 originals including one, “Breezes” we had never played before. Shawn and I sang a scat duet and I even got up and danced. Chris, Alex, and Shawn all drummed. And Al was the star of the show, playing vibes with NJHB.

The audience was great, clapping along and obviously digging the music. And we had coffee and cookies. What more could you ask for?

The next New Jazz In Jonesboro will be on November 10 featuring Bebop Beatniks and NJHB. Put it on your calendar.