ORANGE SUGAR COOKIES AND RECORDS I'VE HEARD AND RECORDS I AIN'T HEARD

 

Sunday I made some classic Joy of Cooking sugar cookies with orange icing, and candied oranges ground up to replace 1/4 cup of the the sugar, while enjoying some classic solo Robert Pollard.  

I was thinking about my mom, who died almost a year ago, and making some cookies helped.  They were devoured, as if by wild hyenas, at work the next day.

I embarked on a Music I Ain't Heard Commute Week yesterday, to shake up my usual habits.  Most of these come from reading Mojo.  The first one was by the Australian singer Gurrumul.  I loved it--beautiful, straight-to-the-heart folk prayers.  I mean, I don't know the language but I could feel it.  It made me think of Ted Hawkins' The Next Hundred Years and the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.  

I remember once telling Joe Brooks about him and I couldn't remember his name and blurted out that guy Nut Rat Alley Can.  Good memories of Joe, RIP.