I have a folder full of music on my network that I’ve yet to integrate into the master drive. The MASTER DRIVE is where all the MP3s I own live together in a way that I only wish people could co-exist. You know: really bad Top 40 songs hanging out with Sonic Youth; honkies and niggers and chinks and spics all digging it together in the tall grass, sun shining, everybody happy.

These songs in ERRANT FOLDER #90026 07.24.08 are still waiting for integration, like Muslims arriving in America after 9/11, except songs can be integrated with the push of the button and racism is overturned at a glacial pace. We’ll live in hope.

Within ERRANT FOLDER #90026 07.24.08 there are sub-holders holding the Watson Twins, James Hunter, John Mellencamp and Sarah Vaughan and, like Prince Albert in A Can, they’ll need to be let out. Then there are 1509 orphans.

Sort by song and you get “40″ by U2 at one end and Zydeco Clowns On The Lam by John Ellis at the other end. I recorded “40″ from a cassette tape of War and I downloaded John Ellis from eMusic.

Sort by time and I found this: at one end, the introduction to Leon Russell’s Carny album, clocking at a well-worth-listening-to 45 seconds. I wouldn’t go so far as to say “I’m an enigma” because it sounds rather haughty. But I have enigmatic tastes and I think weirdness should be promoted along with sanity (and, hopefully, the two will marry and come out somewhere reasonably left of Ronald Reagan). This song does the job.

Not surprisingly, the other end of the long-and-short spectrum gives us the Grateful Dead. The Dead are good for traffic so let me mention them again, this time with a link: GRATEFUL DEAD!

I never saw a Dead show though I know people who have (and try to cover their weirdness with sweaters from Patagonia). But, I get the vibe thanks to the way they did their deal, letting people tape them all along. The Dead lived by the new music business model long before anyone else…and you never REALLY own it anyway, do you?

ERRANT FOLDER 90026 07.24.08 thanks you.

Leon Russell – Carny

Grateful Dead – Dark Star/China Cat Sunflower

Original Recording | September 1994 | Ithaca, NY

Digital Remaster | September 2007 | Brush Prairie, WA

The Iguanas – Oye Isabel
The LA’s – There She Goes
Barenaked Ladies – Jane
Doobie Brothers – Natural Thing
Darden Smith – Trouble No More
Crash Test Dummies – Afternoons and Coffee Spoons
James – Sometimes
Gin Blossoms – Found Out About You
Counting Crows – Mr. Jones
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
U2 – One Tree Hill
Rhythm Corps – Common Ground
Bob Dylan – Lay Lady Lay
REM – Belong
Sting – Nothin’ Bout Me

Notes from original tape: “This tape was was (sic) recorded early fall 1994 on the original Atus/Technics system used at the end of Chuck Clark’s Bar many years before. The original edit of side one also included Van Morrison’s “Chick-A-Boom”. It was recorded over 2 weeks (9/17-24) in the musty living room at Dryden Farm”.

<a href=”http://www.fusion45.com/wp-content/uploads/audio/2007/master_1.mp3″>A-Frame Tapes, Volume 4</a>