To round out Al Jarreau week, I think you need one more: Al's treatment of She's Leaving Home (from Sgt. Pepper). So here's a mixtape addendum:

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A unique take, as Al always does. Enjoy.

Thanks, Eric!

Chet and Mark, Ry, Pat. A guitar player approved mix tape to be sure.

Barry White is appalled. Dead, but still appalled.

The link to his track delivers Billy Joel's "Honesty."

So wrong in so many ways.

Just be happy you didn't get "Rick Roll'd".

This should be fixed now, Jeff. White does include a bad cover of Joel's "Just the Way You Are" on "All-Time Greatest Hits," and when I first read your comment I thought you were saying that Jeff G. (a.k.a. Jefito) had linked to White's cover of "Honesty," but no, he linked to B.J. himself singing "Honesty" live. Odd.

Thanks for fixing that, Robert. I wish I could say it was intentional, but the truth is far more depressing -- during my Great Hard Drive Crash of '06, some of the files that were "saved" actually ended up with incorrect names and tags. Finding and fixing them has been an...ongoing process, as you can see. Usually, I play the mixtape to make sure all the files are as they should be, but this week, I ran out of time. Oops.

I just listened to Chris Mars's "Get Out of My Life" the other day, on a tape of mine from '97. That's one of the best Replacements-gone-solo songs, in my opinion. I should've held on to "Horseshoes and Hand Grenades" longer than I did. I'd probably like it more now than I did in '97.

Not really germane to this post, but I just had to say – a year and a half or so ago, I discoverd Richard Julian through the Weekly Mixtape ("Photograph"), and became a fan for life.

And his new stuff, especially "Man In The Hole" is EXCELLENT.

I don't like the new album as much as his last one, but I'm right there in the 'fan for life' demographic with you. Zack will be reviewing a Julian show soon...

I'm afraid it's time for my weekly fragment report. This week, attempts to download "Ruby Baby" and "Walk the Dinosaur" got me the first 42 seconds of each song. Thank you for your help.

- Darius

I think this is happening, off and on, on the server side, but nobody on the tech crew can figure out why it's happening. It seems to affect visitors randomly. Believe me, we're working on it.

how the f did you have a jimmy smith song I didn't?

I am a slave to Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, and Groove Holmes.

I have vinyl to MP3, I have CD collections loaded with bonus racks, a few shared files & a stack of comps...blah blah blah...guess either he put out so much stuff that you never know where he'll pop up....or you're the MAN...or both!!!

This is actually the only Smith record I have. Sounds like you're the man to write a Popdose Guide to Jimmy Smith, Mojo!

i could...he was the best B3 jazzman ever and I got too blippin many records of his and adore them all, almost pathologically, even the cheezy verve era stuff with the honkin' little-big bands

Do it! Do it! Do it!

All right. Already outlining...this could take awhile...you know he was very prolific, right?

I know next to nothing about Mr. Smith -- why do you think I'm dying to read (and hear) this thing?

oh my. I guess I am so B-3 saturated in my outlook and itunes that I assume everyone has a basic jimmy smith collection---like even people who aren't into Miles Davis might have Kind of Blue and a couple other records like Cookin or Somethin Else or Bitches Brew. I'm a Miles accumulator too

Fasten your seat belts if you haven't been hipped to this all-time American organ playing classic.