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Location: Shawnee, OK United States
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(14Dec2007) I live on a few acres in central Oklahoma along with my wife and children. During the day, I work as an Oracle Database Administrator/Systems Engineer for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). I am also an adjunct instructor for Park University in the Information Systems area. I enjoy teaching. I also volunteer with the Boy Scouts and am enjoying a lot of activi… Read more(14Dec2007)
I live on a few acres in central Oklahoma along with my wife and children. During the day, I work as an Oracle Database Administrator/Systems Engineer for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).
I am also an adjunct instructor for Park University in the Information Systems area. I enjoy teaching.
I also volunteer with the Boy Scouts and am enjoying a lot of activities I missed out on a a youth - backpacking, camping, rapelling, etc.
I have tended to read only SF in the past. Time travel is my favorite topic and I am a real sucker for any movie with that theme. Lately, I've begun to widen the scope of my reading - to just about anything.
I enjoy the content I find here on Amazon and hope that my offerings will be found interesting to someone out there.
Update: I recently began work on a PhD in Industrial Engineering. Wish me luck.
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Lucinda Williams is a very talented songwriter and performer. She varies a bit from CD to CD in style, moving between a country-cajun and blues sound. The sad, almost mournful sound of this work really appeals to me. I liked every song, especially Blue, I Envy The Wind, and Lonely Girls. If you are looking for a mellow sorrowful Lucinda, this is your CD. Or maybe you're just depressed. Mike
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I was in the public library recently, flipping through the CD's. I pulled a handful and listened. What a joy it was to hit this one! I so much love discovering an artist and body of work that I knew nothing of. I feel like an armchair explorer. I have since picked up 6 more of her CD's and enjoy them all. This one is very good. There is an unguarded down-home sound to her voice here that seems to fade in following albums. It is an early work but is more sophisticated than the Ramblin' CD. The addition of background vocals and more instruments fills out the songs a little. But I still enjoy the simple sound of this period. Mike
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This is a truly excellent album. An early Williams album, it was recorded for Folkways Records, who specialized in folk, jazz and the blues. The clean, simple guitar accompanyment accentuates Lucinda's voice and the songs she sings. She has chosen a collection of songs that includes blues, country and traditional and performs them all well. The blues covers are especially good. This is a keeper.
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