There were over 200 submissions in our frisson contest the other day. The Byrds set goes to Jill G in Florida for her incredible essay about "Luka" by Suzanne Vega. Ten honorable mentions for exceptional paragraphs-- each of which could easily have won-- by Ivan (Brel's "Le Port d'Amsterdam"), Jeff B ("All Along the Watchtowner" by Hendrix), eel ("How Soon Is Now" by The Smiths), Shawn T ("It's All Over Now Baby Blue" by Them), Michael D (Bob Marley's "Redemption Song"), David C ("How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths), Damien G (Smiths' "How Soon Is Now" again), Bob W ("East/West" by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band), Tom ( Radiohead's "Paranoid Android") and Steve W who went with a live Dylan version of "Like A Rolling Stone" from a 1966 concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Thanks everybody who spent the time and effort on those amazing entries. I loved reading them!

Jill gets her boxset and tonight's LNMC pick:

Sweetheart of the Rodeo
	Artist: Byrds

Happy Sunday.

The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark
	Artist: Dillard & Clark

1968's The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark is considered by many to be a cornerstone of the country-rock genre. Gene Clark founded the group with banjo player Doug Dillard after Clark departed The Byrds for the second time and Dillard left his band The Dillards. The backing band included rock luminaries Bernie Leadon, Chris Hillman, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Byron Berline, Michael Clarke, and Laramy Smith. Here's a tear jerker from those sessions.

Better to watch this one full screen. TMBG has been doing kids albums that grown-ups love, but this is not a kid song. From their album/DVD TMBG Venue Songs.

Video directed by Divya Srinivasan. More at They Might Be Giants dot com.

Note our sister site Newstalgia has an encore of The Byrds concert from 1968.

What music is playing at your house on Sunday night?

If there really were UFOs, wouldn't Ron Paul be doing better in the race for the Republican nomination? The Byrds did a lot of songs about UFOs back in the sixties, this one, "Hey Mr. Spaceman," from Fifth Dimension, the ultimate psychedelic album, the best known.

Sandy Pearlman, the man who first applied the term "heavy metal" to music, has been using the concept of frisson, long used to explain "goosebumps" in film, as a way of describing music. In a recent essay at DWT he explains his concept and gives examples like Bach, Magnificat; Beethoven; Berlioz, Requiem; Holst, The Planets; The Doors, Light My Fire and When the Music’s Over; Patti Smith, Horses and Bird Land; Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; etc. How about "April Skies" by Jesus and Mary Chain song from Darklands? Or, better yet, pick a song and explain why you think it's an example of frisson. The best paragraph wins the writer a 5 disc Byrds box set, There Is A Season. Send your paragraph to downwithtyranny AT aol DOT com.