I was able to bring over all the old posts and user accounts, so you should be able to log on and start chatting. Just GO HERE:

The New Judy Henske Fan Message Boards

Enjoy!

Is this official? Awaiting confirmation…

“Wade in the Water” from Hootenanny Hoot

“God Bless The Child” from the Judy Garland Show

Last.fm is … a music recommendation system … that builds a detailed profile of each user’s musical taste, also recommending artists similar to their favorites, showing their favourite artists and songs on a customizable profile webpage, comprising the songs played on its stations selected via a collaborative filter, or optionally, recorded by a Last.fm plugin installed into its users’ music playing application.

Basically, if you listen to music on your computer or iPod, you can report every song played to last.fm, which keeps track of all your listening habits and produces charts. Beyond that, it allows people with similar tastes to become “friends” and form groups.

Hence, the Judy Henske fan group.

Registered last.fm users can join by going to the Judy Henske Fan group and clicking “join.”

Henske Gets “Big Judy” Treatment from Rhino Handmade

Folk-rock pioneer Judy Henske is getting the big treatment. Rhino Handmade has released the career-spanning Big Judy: How Far This Music Goes (1962-2004)—a two-disc, 41-track anthology dedicated to Henske’s long, strange, trip from her early days with The Whiskeyhill Singers up through her comeback in 1999. The limited edition set (only 5,000 copies available) features four previously unreleased tracks, rare singles, and songs pulled from all of Henske’s other studio efforts.

Hopefully this is just the beginning of the Big Judy media blitz. I’m subscribed to Google Alerts, so I’ll post ‘em as I see ‘em.

Big Judy Artwork

For those keeping score, the set was mastered by Dan Hersch at Digiprep.

Some words from Craig:

We are very excited about BIG JUDY, and I am urging her to do all she can to get out the word and do interviews etc. We’ve noticed some nice activity based around clips from Hootenanny on either My Space or You Tube. She wants to get her Garland appearance on You Tube as well- all of that type exposure being very good.

(I want to write more songs, make more records. and do more performing). So, the Rhino Handmade release is good for us both, imo. 2007 should be a year filled with heightened recognition of Judy’s talents, and opportunities for us to promote them via cds and live performing.

I’m told that Rhino is shipping the set now. Remember, you won’t be able to buy this in stores, and it’s limited to 5000 copies. To purchase it, go to the Rhino Handmade site and order now.

Here’s the tracklist:

1. That’s Enough (2:22)
2. Oh Didn’t He Ramble (2:44)
3. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out - Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers (3:45)
4. Careless Love - Judy Henske & The Whiskeyhill Quartet (0:36)
5. I Know You Rider (2:03)
6. Love Henry (3:49)
7. Salvation Army Song (4:32)
8. Hooka Tooka (5:11)
9. Wade In the Water (2:58)
10. Charlotte Town (1:53)
11. High Flying Bird (2:57)
12. Till The Real Thing Comes Along (3:06)
13. Blues Chase Up A Rabbit (2:39)
14. The Other Side Of This Life (2:35)
15. Some Of These Days (1:51)
16. Hey Babe, You’ve Been Cheatin’ (2:30)
17. Let The Good Times Roll (2:40)
18. Bye Bye Blackbird (2:19)
19. Road To Nowhere (1:50)
20. Sing A Rainbow (3:03)
21. Day To Day (2:35)
22. Dolphins In The Sea (2:35)
23. Snowblind - Judy Henske & Jerry Yester (3:02)
24. Lullaby - Judy Henske & Jerry Yester (3:00)
25. Raider - Judy Henske & Jerry Yester (5:13)
26. Rapture - Judy Henske & Jerry Yester (4:10)
27. Lazy - Rosebud (2:49)
28. Father Of Souls (3:43)
29. Reno - Rosebud (3:57)
30. Lullabye II (Summer Carol) - Rosebud (2:31)
31. Flying To Morning - Rosebud (4:23)
32. Yellow Beach Umbrella (4:08)
33. Master Of Love (2:41)
34. Tin Star (3:40)
35. Blue Fortune (4:50)
36. Wish I Had My Old Guitar (3:43)
37. Ace In The Hole (3:55)
38. Cocktail World (5:24)
39. Duncan And Brady (3:26)
40. Western Wisconsin (4:21)
41. Hollywood People (6:06)

This is a fantastic tracklist. We get the original Judy Hart single, all the Reprise sides, a couple Mercury tracks, Rosebud, tracks from Farewell Aldebaran, four unreleased tracks and the cream of the crop from the last two CDs. I couldn’t ask for anything better!

Craig tells me the packaging is really nice, and features some rarely-seen photos.

Has anybody noticed this? There’s a 2CD item titled ‘Big Judy - How Far This Music Goes (1962-2004)’ which has shown up on amazon.co.uk for pre-order, with a tentative release date of February 19, 2007. No track listing, and further Googling has yet to yield any results. Anyone else got any info??

Amazon.uk lists it here, and also a “Limited” version here. Also listed as a 2-CD set at Townsend Records in the UK.

This must be the rumored collection from Rhino Handmade. Finally! Release date is supposed to be February 19. Still no mention of it on the Rhino Handmade website though…

Also of note, a vinyl edition of Farewell Aldebaran from Radioactive. So you’re telling me that they created the LP from an LP dub? Gee, thanks…

UPDATE: Just received word from Craig that Disc 1 will contain 18 tracks, and Disc 2 will contain 19. Disc 2 will feature 11 tracks from Loose in the World and She Sang California.

NOTE: ALL RHINO HANDMADE RELEASES ARE LIMITED EDITION. You’ll be able to order from the Rhino Handmade website. I’d go there instead of Amazon… you never know how quickly these will sell out.

UPDATE: Still down… things have been crazy around here! I hope to update everything later this week.

UPDATE 2: The Message Board is OPEN.