so you got the cd! and, i presume, it works! excellent...

a couple of those songs might've made it onto the cd because i know the people and i know that they are popular and have a pretty good following. most of them are songs i regularly listen to.

the folk tradition is strong here, and it seems like everybody owns a guitar and plays and sings. and every other person has an album... there are folk festivals filled with performers. AND there is a whole different crowd of young rocksters around. for my BURN UNIT cd, i mostly stuck with fairbanks artists (or artists who have played here), and most of the songs come from produced cds. i could make another cd of my favourite live songs that i've managed to acquire from open mic recordings or elsewhere.

i've started to get the notes typed in at pat's allmediareview site, but i've not finished.

alaska websites...

good question... these two are interesting:

1. whole wheat radio ... streaming audio from some guy's cabin in talkeetna, alaska. automated to run with a chat room and request queue. lots of folky alaska music in the library. easy to make requests. the guy who runs the thing is out building a cabin, so he's not on the audio or chat too much right now...

2. AK this month i've never looked at the site till now, but as the banner says, a lot of paper copies are distributed throughout the state, and i read them all the time to find out about music and other performance news...