Even though we'd been over for a wonderful meal on Saturday, Jill and I drove back to join Medley, Now This and Divinest Sense for the House Call from Dr. Dean, the single largest ever conference call (as verified by AT&T and likely to be entered into the Guiness Book of World Records). Surprisingly enough, it was really the first time that I had heard Governor Dean speak; I've caught snippets on the news radio, but never really sat down and listened. After the call ended, we watched some of the DVD that the campaign sent and that was the first time I had seen Dean speak (we watched one of the ads and the end of the announcement speech).

Steve and I are in the midst of trying to turn each other on to different music after we discovered how much music that we had in common, but also realizing that we likely knew about even more good stuff that the other hadn't heard yet. I'm not quite ready to comment on the disc that Steve made for me, but I have to share the track listing for the disc I presented him with last night, which I called "Texas is Better than Bush" because it has all Texas artists (with one notable exception). And, yes, I do recommend all these songs:

• James McMurtry, "Talkin' at the Texaco"
• Darden Smith, "God's Will"
• Fastball, "Fire Escape"
• Kris McKay, "One Moment to Another"
• The Reivers, "What Am I Doing"
• Glass Eye, "Perder la Guerra"
• Nanci Griffith, "One Blade Shy of a Sharp Edge"
• The Vaughan Brothers, "Good Texan"
• Lyle Lovett, "That's Right (You're Not from Texas)"
• Michelle Shocked, "Strawberry Jam"
• Spoon, "The Way We Get By"
• Eric Johnson, "East West"
• Lou Ann Barton, "Pink Bedroom"
• Joe Ely, "Everybody Got Hammered"
• Sara Hickman, "Too Fast"
• Shawn Colvin, "Round of Blues"
• Two Nice Girls, "Noona's Revenge"
• Willie Nelson, "She Loves My Automobile"
• Rodney Crowell, "Let's Make Trouble"
• Austin Lounge Lizards, "Life is Hard, but Life is Harder When You're Dumb"
• Sister 7, "Polishing the Looking Glass"
• Laurie Anderson, "emergency broadcasting system test"

It's that latter one that's not from a Texan, but for a Texas radio station that likely would have played every one of these songs. Two of the songs above also reflect my feeling about Bush (the Griffith and the Austin Lounge Lizards songs).

The one song that I really wish I owned and could have put on there was the Wild Seed's "I'm Sorry (I Can't Rock You All Night Long)." I'm hoping to get a copy of that soon, but Michael Hall was sold out of the Wild Seeds greatest hits disc, but he did say that he plans to make more soon.