averyfineline

Good morning from Louisville. It’s been illuminating waking up to an inbox of comments commending me for my mellower commentary about last night’s music. That was not what I expected. I spent a good hour after I went to bed wondering if I had been unnecessarily harsh. Guess it could be MNP’s absence throwing me […]

To begin with: three notes.

First, a shout out to dear MNP, who normally travels with me (or I with her) to NQC but who couldn’t make the sojourn this year. I’m lost without her (literally: I was half way to downtown this afternoon before I figured out how to get back to 264E), […]

I only touched down in Kentucky within the hour and already Avery sightings - caught on camera - are popping up online. Chuck Peters has the goods, such as they are. It’s a decent likeness, I think.
Update: Ok, for real this time: here. Let the stalking begin.

Let us now praise free wireless in airports. I’m in the Orlando terminal waiting for my connection to Louisville. Looking at comments traffic, I think it’s safe to say the NQC’s live-video feed has the makings of a success (if it, like the exhibit hall, can be debugged). Sixty bucks seems a little steep, but […]

Smartest gimmick of the week, from Danny Jones’s blog:
I’m not quite sure who is responsible for this (either the Hoppers or Canaan Records), but they are making fans and friends for life: they have a small fleet of golf carts transporting patrons to and from Freedom Hall and the exhibit hall. Sure, it’s shameless promotion […]

A friend whose taste is “pert neer” (as my grandmother used to say) impeccable just texted from NQC to say: “The Florida Boys are freakin’ incredible. Too bad.” Indeed. Like a beautiful sunset, I guess.
Gene McDonald’s back on bass for this the group’s farewell stand. I hope the FBs don’t get KingsGolded on Saturday night […]

Of all the new stuff out right now (and there’s a lot, doesn’t it seem?), I gotta say I’m most interested in the Perrys new album. If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, Daniel Mount may be from Pluto, at least judging by the astronomically outlandish way he’s prone to enthuse, gush, […]

Anticipating the bloggers roundtable later this week at NQC, I’ve been thinking a lot about the progression of averyfineline from the anonymous upstart pariah it was when I began, to … well, the not anonymous upstart pariah it is today. In some ways, I’m a little anxious about this gathering. For starters, Marty Funderburke could […]

A clean space to report back from NQC, free from other diversions that sidetracked the last open forum. Post away.

Has the SN been down all day for anyone else besides me? And if so, didn’t this happen at the beginning of NQC not too long ago? No matter if my memory’s faulty or not (and it may be) what’s up with the prolonged downtime?
Update: According to the comments and a subsequent note from Danny […]