Richard Summerbell
@acremonium.bsky.social
Medical and environmental mycologist, mushroom identifier, bird watcher, philosopher of opportunity and choice, LGBT essayist, novelist and songwriter.
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#StillDoinCDs Sam Fender, from North Shields in NE England, has had a major hand in re-energizing rock music for the newer generations in the UK & Ireland. “Seventeen Going Under,” his platinum 2021 2nd album, features a hit title track about growing up through his mom’s financial problems at 17.
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
#StillDoinCDs Sam Fender, from North Shields in NE England, has had a major hand in re-energizing rock music for the newer generations in the UK & Ireland. “Seventeen Going Under,” his platinum 2021 2nd album, features a hit title track about growing up through his mom’s financial problems at 17.
#StillDoinCDs What are the Odds of Bare Naked Ladies & Sloan getting together for the Pursuit of Happiness? Trans-Canada Highwaymen, an improbable Canadian supergroup, toured their respective bands’ hits & put out a 2023 album of 70s Cancon “explosive hits.” Ultimate boomer musical comfort food.
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
#StillDoinCDs What are the Odds of Bare Naked Ladies & Sloan getting together for the Pursuit of Happiness? Trans-Canada Highwaymen, an improbable Canadian supergroup, toured their respective bands’ hits & put out a 2023 album of 70s Cancon “explosive hits.” Ultimate boomer musical comfort food.
#StillDoinCDs In 2006, I had the honour of being an ad hoc member of an opening act in Amsterdam for post-rock band Zeal in a small venue & obtained “Where Ships Go By,” their 2006 3d EP, from them. Gerdien Ten Boer handles the starkly smooth vocals over the deep electro-pace.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
#StillDoinCDs In 2006, I had the honour of being an ad hoc member of an opening act in Amsterdam for post-rock band Zeal in a small venue & obtained “Where Ships Go By,” their 2006 3d EP, from them. Gerdien Ten Boer handles the starkly smooth vocals over the deep electro-pace.
#StillDoinCDs Kavkasia is a trio of American & Canadian singers who became fascinated with the beautiful harmonic structures of traditional Sakartvelian/Georgian music & excelled to the point of winning a Georgian state medal. “Songs of the Caucasus,” 1995, was album 1 of three.
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
#StillDoinCDs Kavkasia is a trio of American & Canadian singers who became fascinated with the beautiful harmonic structures of traditional Sakartvelian/Georgian music & excelled to the point of winning a Georgian state medal. “Songs of the Caucasus,” 1995, was album 1 of three.
#StillDoinCDs “Crime of the Century” was the breakthrough 3d album of Supertramp, percolating its way through UK & Canadian students, among others, as a brilliant record-of-the-year in 1974, attaining #4 & diamond sales. Its theme of social misfits and conforming people in modern life hit home.
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
#StillDoinCDs “Crime of the Century” was the breakthrough 3d album of Supertramp, percolating its way through UK & Canadian students, among others, as a brilliant record-of-the-year in 1974, attaining #4 & diamond sales. Its theme of social misfits and conforming people in modern life hit home.
#StillDoinCDs Don Messer from Tweedside, NB, was a fixture of growing up boomer in anglo-Canada, even though he mostly smiled & fiddled in the background in his CBC show, Don Messer’s Jubilee. This Millennium Collection Best of, 2005, puts his Celtic & East Coast triplets & bouncy rhythms up front.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
#StillDoinCDs Don Messer from Tweedside, NB, was a fixture of growing up boomer in anglo-Canada, even though he mostly smiled & fiddled in the background in his CBC show, Don Messer’s Jubilee. This Millennium Collection Best of, 2005, puts his Celtic & East Coast triplets & bouncy rhythms up front.
#StillDoinCDs Paper Lions is an upbeat, palate-cleansing youth-pop/indie rock band from Charlottetown via Belfast, Prince Edward Island. Their 2016 4th of 6 albums so far, “Full Colour,” won 4 East Coast Music Awards nominations. Single “Believer” is a live wire of a funky party song.
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
#StillDoinCDs Paper Lions is an upbeat, palate-cleansing youth-pop/indie rock band from Charlottetown via Belfast, Prince Edward Island. Their 2016 4th of 6 albums so far, “Full Colour,” won 4 East Coast Music Awards nominations. Single “Believer” is a live wire of a funky party song.
#StillDoinCDs I was missing 4/10 members of this set, but tw/xeeting about them spurred me to get the rest from discogs. Vol. 1 of “Classic Blues” is a gem right from the growly opening track by Bessie Smith, & continuing on with 1 of Billie Holiday’s best, St. Louis Blues.
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
#StillDoinCDs I was missing 4/10 members of this set, but tw/xeeting about them spurred me to get the rest from discogs. Vol. 1 of “Classic Blues” is a gem right from the growly opening track by Bessie Smith, & continuing on with 1 of Billie Holiday’s best, St. Louis Blues.
#StillDoinCDs Al Green, from Memphis TN via Forrest City, AR, became a major soul artist in the 1970s with secular songs, but also did gospel songs & became a pastor. “From My Soul” (1987) is a gospel compilation of 70s & 80s songs, including the ethereal “Jesus is Waiting.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
#StillDoinCDs Al Green, from Memphis TN via Forrest City, AR, became a major soul artist in the 1970s with secular songs, but also did gospel songs & became a pastor. “From My Soul” (1987) is a gospel compilation of 70s & 80s songs, including the ethereal “Jesus is Waiting.”
#StillDoinCDs Vincent Vallières has outdone himself with his new 9th album “Les Saisons, Les Secondes” (The Seasons, the Seconds, 2025), whence the quote on his inscription arises, “It becomes a truce, the first golden rays” (of the sun on the road from a painful breakup). Extraordinary alt rock.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
#StillDoinCDs Vincent Vallières has outdone himself with his new 9th album “Les Saisons, Les Secondes” (The Seasons, the Seconds, 2025), whence the quote on his inscription arises, “It becomes a truce, the first golden rays” (of the sun on the road from a painful breakup). Extraordinary alt rock.
#StillDoinCDs One of Canada’s top reggae bands, the Sattalites were & are an easygoing ~8-member troupe doing a mix including many romance songs, often originals by Jamaican-Canadian Jo Jo Bennett ✝️ & Anglo-Canadian Fergus Hambleton. “All Over the World” (1992) has hit “Easier Said Than Done.”
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
#StillDoinCDs One of Canada’s top reggae bands, the Sattalites were & are an easygoing ~8-member troupe doing a mix including many romance songs, often originals by Jamaican-Canadian Jo Jo Bennett ✝️ & Anglo-Canadian Fergus Hambleton. “All Over the World” (1992) has hit “Easier Said Than Done.”
#StillDoinCDs “Hard Rain” (1976) was Bob Dylan’s 2nd live album, featuring band “The Rolling Thunder Review” with T-Bone Burnett. The always restlessly inventive Bob reworked the tunes of hits like Maggie’s Farm & Lay Lady Lay to give them a harder rocking edge, making this disc’s versions unique.
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
#StillDoinCDs “Hard Rain” (1976) was Bob Dylan’s 2nd live album, featuring band “The Rolling Thunder Review” with T-Bone Burnett. The always restlessly inventive Bob reworked the tunes of hits like Maggie’s Farm & Lay Lady Lay to give them a harder rocking edge, making this disc’s versions unique.
#StillDoinCDs Perth County Conspiracy was a psychedelic folk-rock outfit composed of 70s counterculture folk who lived in rented farms & got together in at a Stratford, Ont. coffeehouse. The indie 1973 Rumour II featured fine songs & politically pointed dramatic skits. Fave track: “Wild Mushrooms.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
#StillDoinCDs Perth County Conspiracy was a psychedelic folk-rock outfit composed of 70s counterculture folk who lived in rented farms & got together in at a Stratford, Ont. coffeehouse. The indie 1973 Rumour II featured fine songs & politically pointed dramatic skits. Fave track: “Wild Mushrooms.”
#StillDoinCDs Another new acquisition of a classic, U2 with “The Joshua Tree,” 1987, where innovative guitar filigree & great writing generated 3 platinum singles (multi-Pt in New Zealand), incl. “With or Without You.” “One Tree Hill” was dedicated to a tragically ✝️ NZ motorcyclist roadie.
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
#StillDoinCDs Another new acquisition of a classic, U2 with “The Joshua Tree,” 1987, where innovative guitar filigree & great writing generated 3 platinum singles (multi-Pt in New Zealand), incl. “With or Without You.” “One Tree Hill” was dedicated to a tragically ✝️ NZ motorcyclist roadie.
Some Christmas/Hanukkah/Sinterklaas season reading for people interested in fungal diseases: Emerging Human Health Problems Caused by Pathogenic and Immuno-activating Fungi. New book chapter just out! With a section on indoor mold evaluation.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Some Christmas/Hanukkah/Sinterklaas season reading for people interested in fungal diseases: Emerging Human Health Problems Caused by Pathogenic and Immuno-activating Fungi. New book chapter just out! With a section on indoor mold evaluation.
#StillDoinCDs Sector 27 was Tom Robinson’s new band after TRB. Its 1980 only album (on CD w bonus tracks 1996) featured the latest in hot youth lead guitar & fx with Stevie Blanchard. Critics loved it, not a huge hit, one of my personal core records. LGBT/allies rock at its dazzling coolest.
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
#StillDoinCDs Sector 27 was Tom Robinson’s new band after TRB. Its 1980 only album (on CD w bonus tracks 1996) featured the latest in hot youth lead guitar & fx with Stevie Blanchard. Critics loved it, not a huge hit, one of my personal core records. LGBT/allies rock at its dazzling coolest.
#StillDoinCDs 16 yr after this 2009 album, Kate is now Kael (they/them), working as a psych prof at York Univ., still sharing their 4 albums at kaelreid.com/music. ‘I’m Just Warming Up’, #2/4, shines as classic lesbiana/Canadiana, with wit & twangy delights + the Cremation of Sam McGee, in song.
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
#StillDoinCDs 16 yr after this 2009 album, Kate is now Kael (they/them), working as a psych prof at York Univ., still sharing their 4 albums at kaelreid.com/music. ‘I’m Just Warming Up’, #2/4, shines as classic lesbiana/Canadiana, with wit & twangy delights + the Cremation of Sam McGee, in song.
Well! The red-bellied woodpecker came a-knocking for the first time since the winter before last!
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Well! The red-bellied woodpecker came a-knocking for the first time since the winter before last!
#StillDoinCDs “Crisis? What Crisis” was Supertramp’s 1975 4th album, follow-up to their breakthrough. It was a joyously experimental album-trax-album that went gold (diamond in Canada) despite minimal singles action. Intriguing melody mixed with wild touches like lip trumpet.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
#StillDoinCDs “Crisis? What Crisis” was Supertramp’s 1975 4th album, follow-up to their breakthrough. It was a joyously experimental album-trax-album that went gold (diamond in Canada) despite minimal singles action. Intriguing melody mixed with wild touches like lip trumpet.
#StillDoinCDs The Meters are THE classic bayou funk band from New Orleans, whose 8 albums (1969-77) never broke the top 100 in pop, but who were beloved by critics & connoisseurs, & whose music has been consistently reused & sampled ever since. “The Hits,” 1997, brings it all home.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
#StillDoinCDs The Meters are THE classic bayou funk band from New Orleans, whose 8 albums (1969-77) never broke the top 100 in pop, but who were beloved by critics & connoisseurs, & whose music has been consistently reused & sampled ever since. “The Hits,” 1997, brings it all home.
From the summer, but I have another bottle ready in the fridge. Slava Ukraini i LGBTQi!
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
From the summer, but I have another bottle ready in the fridge. Slava Ukraini i LGBTQi!
#StillDoinCDs Toronto-based Haida/Cree artist Kristi Lane Sinclair gained nominations for best Canadian Indigenous folk songwriter in the 00s, but by this 2018 EP “The Ability to Judge Distance” had turned toward punk-influenced atmospheric alt-rock, reaching a fine, lofty stratosphere. On bandcamp
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
#StillDoinCDs Toronto-based Haida/Cree artist Kristi Lane Sinclair gained nominations for best Canadian Indigenous folk songwriter in the 00s, but by this 2018 EP “The Ability to Judge Distance” had turned toward punk-influenced atmospheric alt-rock, reaching a fine, lofty stratosphere. On bandcamp
#StillDoinCDs AFI, acronym for A Fire Inside, from Ukiah, California, is a “post-hardcore” band, at least at the time of this breakthrough 2003 album, “Sing the Sorrow.” An esthetic range from melodic hard rock with pretty bits to scream vocals yielded #5 (US; 10 CDA) & platinum.
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
#StillDoinCDs AFI, acronym for A Fire Inside, from Ukiah, California, is a “post-hardcore” band, at least at the time of this breakthrough 2003 album, “Sing the Sorrow.” An esthetic range from melodic hard rock with pretty bits to scream vocals yielded #5 (US; 10 CDA) & platinum.
Take one Labrador, add one soft rubber ball being played with by another owner and his French bulldogs; Labrador seizes and squeaks the ball, then swallows it. Result: endoscopy bill to remove after simpler remedies fail.
Problems of the dogeoisie.
Problems of the dogeoisie.
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Take one Labrador, add one soft rubber ball being played with by another owner and his French bulldogs; Labrador seizes and squeaks the ball, then swallows it. Result: endoscopy bill to remove after simpler remedies fail.
Problems of the dogeoisie.
Problems of the dogeoisie.
The Trumpo-Putinist propagandists made a big push about how evil liberals and the World Economic Forum were going to make people in the western democracies eat farmed insects -- but now Trump is going to make 42 million Americans go out and find their own insects to eat, and in the winter.
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Trumpo-Putinist propagandists made a big push about how evil liberals and the World Economic Forum were going to make people in the western democracies eat farmed insects -- but now Trump is going to make 42 million Americans go out and find their own insects to eat, and in the winter.