Slipcue.Com: Acknowledgements, thanks, kudos credits and props... Muito Obrigado!

Since I started this wacky "little" website in 1998, I've had tons of folks help me out in all kinds of ways... Friends who have given feedback, loaned me records or steered me towards something cool... Readers who have commented on various pages, lent their support or turned me on to new records... And of course, my wife, Jenny Sixpack, who puts up with all kinds of silliness and obsessive behavior... and who has to listen to a lot of the same records I do, year in and year out. (Thanks, honey!)

Thanks to anyone who has written to correct me... lord knows I ain't perfeck, and constructive criticism is always welcome. Special thanks to Diana Justus for pointing out the correct spelling of "stationery."

And...in that spirit, here's a special shout-out to a few specific folks who have added to the Slipcue site over the years: Jenny, Roshi, Jesse and the Kookapottomus, Mom, Dad & the entire Sixpack clan. All the folks from KALX, especially old-timers like The In-Crowd, Eli, Brother Grimm, a special shout-out to Pat Wright for giving me my first daytime radio show, to The Mighty Alisa for giving me the owrld's best HTML book, to Last Will for teasing me about my adjectives, Mssr. Banbointe for turning me on to "The Old Dark House," to Billy Jam for being an example in persistence and energy, Mystic Eyes, Doctor Frank, Dr. Elmo, Max Hechter and Mike Burma. Thanks also to Jeffrey M. Cobb, for showing us that there is life after KALX (even if it is at WFMU...) Krazy multiple kudos to the folks at Spinner: Catherine, Mark, Michele, Stan and Robert, and to Nathalie and Dave for making things work. (Also, many sincere thanks to the folks at KPFA for not hiring me despite several earnest interviews: I still have my hair, it's not all grey, and I still have a sense of humor. Whew! Dodged that bullet!!) Special super-thanks to Roscoe 2000, for encouraging me to write about Brazilian stuff... And to John, Paul, George and Ringo, who are still bigger than Jesus.

Thanks also to readers who have offered advice or music for me to check out... thanks to Mike D for the Marcos Valle, Greg Germani for the Carl Butler & Pearl records, Robert Buchanan for spotting some dead links, to Robert Iannapollo for the cool Indian film music and advice...

Thanks, of course, to all the fabulous publicity and promo folks at various labels and publishers... In particular, eternal gratitude to Bruce Bastin, Michelle Mike, Cary Mansfield, Louisa Spier, Tom Diamant, Tim at Sundazed, Brad & David at Compass, Kissy Black, Harris Wray, all the folks at Rounder and Rhino (back when they returned my phone calls), Francis Macdonald, to Smithsonian-Folkways and Green Linnet, and anyone else I've pestered about some great record or another... Thanks also to Leslie Rouffe, Jennifer Daunt, Al Moss and Lance Cowan, for all the groovy music over the years. And a special shout-out to Darrell at HighTone, one of my all-time favorite curmudgeons. You rock, dude.

Thanks (I think) to the following record stores: Amoeba Music, Down Home Music, Village Music, Asta's, Kief's, Love Garden, and a bazillion other shops that have fed my imagination and emptied my pockets. Thanks to all the public libraries of the world, in particular to the Berkeley Public Library for having an idiosyncratic collection, the Lawrence Public Library for being open so many hours, and the Long Room at Trinity College just for looking so cool when I poked my nose in a few years ago. Oh, and for helping keep Western Civilization alive. We do appreciate the effort. Thanks also to all the radio stations that helped shape me: KJHK back in the '70s when they weren't so tragically hip; KFAT, KFCF & KPFA, KFSR, KALX (duh), KALW, KQED, KCSM, whatever country station that was I listened to when I was four, that mysterious AM station from Arkansas that I could hear on stormy nights, to all the weird, wobbly signals on the shortwave set, and any station anywhere that has ever hired Sully Roddy.

Thanks also to the folks at the New Yorker and The Times for being all smart and stuff. It's nice to be able to read something that is literate and gramatically correct, even if I can't maintain those standards myself...

Super-special thanks to the numerous folks who have written to point out other websites that have "borrowed" my writing... Special thanks to Sam Wood... much appreciated!

Oh, and thanks again to my wife. Don't worry, honey: I will definitely take the cat litter out... tonight, I promise!!