Live Music:

• Olu Dara (Club Helsinki, Great Barrington) # 1 best show of 2007!
• Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys (Bearsville Theater)
• Jason Kao Hwang (Alt Bks Uptown, Kingston)
• Slavic Soul Party (Spiegeltent at Bard)
• Jason Slack and the Slick Slack Brass Band (Hudson, TSL on the riverfront)
• The Detroit Cobras (Stray Bar, Hudson)
• Chops and Seth (Bert’s Inn, Craryville)
• Porter Wagoner (Madison SQ Garden, opening up for White Stripes and Grinderman)
• Elvis Costello SOLO (opening for Dylan, Times Union, Albany)
• Toumani Diabate (Zankel Hall, NYC)
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington)
• Youssou N’Dour (UPAC, Kingston),
• VISION FESTIVAL opening night, especially performances by William Parker, Hamid Drake, Marc Ribot and Cooper-Moore (Angel Orensanz Foundation,
  Norfolk St. NYC).

  Records:

• Agitpop’s new one!!(find on myspace),
• Levon Helm "Dirt Farmer" (Vanguard)
• The Blue Ribbon Boys with Julia Gottlieb (self produced)
• Lee Hazelwood "Cake or Death" (BPX)
• Joe Strummer soundtrack for "The Future is Unwritten" (Sony)
• Rufus Wainwright "Release the Stars" (Geffen)
• John Coltrane Box set the Impulse Albums Vol. 1 – 5
• William Parker & Hamid Drake, "First Communion and Piercing the Veil" (AUM)
• Johnny Thunders Box "You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory" (3 CDs:Castle US)
• Oxford American Compilation CD Southern Music Issue 2007
• Tinariwen "Aman Iman" (World Village USA)
• Melverne Taylor; "Fabuloso" (P-1 Music)
• Howard Fishman Performs Bob Dylan and the Band’s "Basement Tapes" Live at Joe’s Pub (Monkey Farm) with DVD of concert footage.
  

  Radio:

• Doug Schulkind’s "Give the Drummer Some" broadcast of the John Coltrane audio documentary, How Long’s Train Been Gone on WFMU (Fridays 9am – noon)
• Laura Cantrel’s Radio Thrift Shop returns to FMU via internet only every other wednesday, 6-9am WFMU.ORG
  

  Food:

• Philmont Public House,
• Costa Rican food at the Black Swan in Tivoli,
• Le Gamin, Hudson
  

  Films:

• I am Cuba
• Gypsy Caravan
• Moriarty
• No Country for Old Men
• No End in Sight
• Charlie Wilson’s War
  

  Books:

• Flying Too Close to the Sun by Cathy Wilkerson
• The People of Paper by Salvador Plasencia
• No Smoking by Luc Sante
• Shout Sister Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe by Gayle F. Wald
  

  Personal Highlights:

• Marching in the NYC Halloween Parade!
• the i-pod classic
• the Blue Ribbon Boys live on my radio show
• Tivoli United craft fair
• the pirate bar in catskill
• playing with the MERMAID KILLERS!!