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Here's a direct link. I just clicked on, Dave Matthews / Tim Reynolds just starting. Hope this can improve my mood after my teams went 0-4 for a lousy sports weekend.

http://www.farmaid.org/site/c.qlI5IhNVJ … ebcast.htm

Welcome to chordie Diss!

Can you give a better hint? To me "old song" means something from the 30s or 40s, a lot of youngsters think "old" is from the 90s. What kind of tune is it? (Genre - i.e. folk, blues, rock, punk). Do you have a guess on the artist? Might give searchers a clue as to the song you are looking for.

Again - welcome to chordie, but please provide some more info so the members can help you!

Welcome to the forum WolfMan. Your story is similar to many here, so I'm sure you'll hit right in.

Are you speaking of the chord charts when you mention "tables"? These can be located to the right or bottom, or turned off. Please provide a link to specific songs you are having an issue with as I don't understand the problem.

Well done Gil. FYI - I wasn't picking on you. This issue has arisen in the past and the decision made was to not allow artists to post links to "pay for music" sites for promotion of their own music. Another moderator here even got his link removed some time ago.

Cool song

Thought folks might be interested in a little history (it's interesting to me anyway).

Tom Dooley (Dula actually) lived very near my current home. From Wiki:

Thomas C. Dula (June 22, 1845 – May 1, 1868)[1][2] was a former Confederate soldier, who was tried, convicted, and hanged for the murder of his fiancée, Laura Foster. The trial and hanging received national publicity from newspapers such as The New York Times, thus turning Dula's story into a folk legend. While the murder happened in Wilkes County, North Carolina, the trial, conviction, and execution took place in Statesville, North Carolina. There was considerable controversy around his conviction and execution. In subsequent years, a folk song was written (entitled “Tom Dooley� , based on the pronunciation in the local dialect), and many oral traditions were passed down, regarding the sensational occurrences surrounding the murder of Foster, and Dula's subsequent execution.[1][3] The Kingston Trio recorded a hit version of the murder ballad in 1958.[4]

Upon returning from the war, Dula discovered that Ann had married James Melton. Given his reputation as something of a libertine,[2] it did not take Dula long to take up with young Laura. She became pregnant shortly thereafter, and she and Dula decided to elope. On the night she was to meet Dula, she left her home, never to be seen alive again.[1] While it is not known for certain what happened that evening, many of the stories that have grown out of the folklore of the time implicate Ann Melton in some way. Some believe that Ann may have murdered Laura Foster because she was still in love with Dula and was jealous that Laura was marrying him; others believe that perhaps Dula knew or suspected that Ann had murdered Foster, but because he still loved Ann he refused to implicate her after he was arrested and took the blame for the murder. In fact, it was Ann's word that led to the discovery of the girl's body. Foster had been stabbed multiple times with a large knife. The gruesome nature of the murder - combined with the fact that Laura Foster was pregnant when she was killed - captured national attention, and most likely led to the enduring notoriety of the crime.[1]

The role of Dula in the slaying is unclear. He fled shortly after her body was found – when he was declared a suspect – working for a time for Colonel James Grayson, in Watauga County,[2] before taking refuge across the state line in Trade, Tennessee. Grayson would enter folklore as a romantic rival of Dula's, but this was not true. It was simply an incorrect inference drawn from the lyrics of the song, and became more widespread as the actual facts of the case were largely forgotten. Grayson did, however, help the Wilkes County posse bring Dula in, once his identity was discovered.[1]

After Dula was arrested, North Carolina Governor Zebulon Vance represented him pro bono, and maintained Dula's innocence of the charges. He succeeded in having the trial moved from Wilkesboro to Statesville, as it was widely believed that Dula would never receive a fair trial in Wilkes County. Dula was convicted, and although he was given a new trial on appeal he was convicted again. His supposed accomplice, Jack Keaton, was set free and, on Dula's word, Melton was acquitted of the crime. As he stood on the gallows facing his death, he is reported to have said, “Gentlemen, do you see this hand? I didn’t harm a hair on the girl’s head� . He was executed nearly two years after the murder of his fiancée, on May 1, 1868. His younger sister and her husband retrieved his body for burial after the execution.

A link to pics his grave marker:

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/johnson/legends/tom_dula.htm

Thanks for the lesson Wayne!

I have used Firefox pretty much exclusively for several years now. Although there is the occasional glitch, I have never had any problem on chordie - I stay automatically logged in and cannot recall ever having a problem accessing my songbook.

Toney - (I just returned from a weekend getaway trip to the mountains, sorry for the delayed response). That is an awesome offer, but hopefully one that will not come to fruition. Not that it wouldn't be great to have you, but the hope is that one day soon, the DA (after reviewing the overwhelming evidence) will vacate the charges and Greg will be set free. As I understand it, if this happens, there will be virtually no notice. If the case does go to the "three judge panel", there is no telling how long that could take. I will certainly keep this thread updated with any news.

I received the below email from Eddy Taylor (Greg's brother) on Friday that I though I would share. I had written an email to the DA imploring him to release Tater and posted the email address on his blog. Apparently that was frowned upon by the attorney.

Hi Jeff
I asked an attorney about the email address and they said it was best to not to post the information. I took the addresses off the board. Thank you for jumping in for the cause . It's people like you that are making the difference in Greg's case. I'll be posting tonight about a gathering at the courthouse downtown. Let people know to come on out if you talk to any one from Raleigh.
BTW I've had several people ask me about the Chordie Forum. The site comes up on google and when you make a new post it comes right up to the front of the list. The comments are great. Keep it going.
Thanks
Eddy

Good article in today's paper.

Prisoner awaits decision on release

BY MANDY LOCKE - Staff Writer

SMITHFIELD -- Greg Taylor has a head for numbers.

He'll tell you exactly how many Budweisers he had on Sept. 25, 1991, the night he drove into Southeast Raleigh looking for drugs to keep his night going. He knows he's read more than 800 books in the years the state has kept him locked up for murder. And, by his reckoning, today is the 6,003rd day he will spend in prison for a crime he has insisted from the beginning he never committed.

Matters of the heart are tougher for Taylor. Mention Kristen, the daughter he had to abandon as a child, and he buckles in sobs. Ask him about the battle his sister lost with cancer in 2006, Taylor will shake his head and mutter that he should have been there. Ask him how he feels about the guy who has now confessed to murdering Jacquetta Thomas, Taylor is practically speechless.

"It just never occurs to you that an innocent person could get dragged into something like this," Taylor said Saturday in his first interview since the N.C. Innocence Inquiry Commission voted unanimously this month that he is innocent.

Taylor waits now, still a prisoner as his case moves to a three-judge panel to be convened by the chief justice of the State Supreme Court. Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby can either contest Taylor's request to be exonerated or petition the court to vacate his sentence before the panel convenes.

The delay is agonizing for Taylor and his family. It's also frustrating for Thomas' family.

"I hate it's taking even one more day," said Yolanda Littlejohn, Thomas' sister. Littlejohn said she has always thought Taylor was innocent, and after sitting through the commission's hearing, she is pained by Taylor's misfortune. "You don't keep a man locked up because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Taylor is a measured, calm man who settled into his captivity. He accepted the gifts of imprisonment -- sobriety and reflection -- and tried to make peace with its insults.

"Anger's out the door a long time ago," Taylor said. "You can't survive for any length of time on bitterness and blame."

Reading and learning became his salvation. He earned two associates degrees in prison and became a teaching assistant for community college professors who teach inside the prison. At Johnston Correctional Institution, Taylor manages the library, linking other inmates with authors he thinks they will like.

Taylor's arrest stemmed from a night of bad luck and bad choices. The night Jacquetta Thomas was murdered, Taylor said, he had ventured into Southeast Raleigh, trolling for crack. He and Johnny Beck, a local he'd befriended months before, pulled into a dark, muddy path to smoke, he said.

Taylor said they saw Thomas' body, stripped, beaten and stabbed. Taylor asked Beck if they should call for help. Beck urged him to forget about it and move along. Taylor's truck got stuck in the mud up the path from Thomas' body; he left it there. Police immediately considered him a suspect.

Taylor figured he would quickly straighten things out. He endured two interrogations. He turned over his clothes and pocket knives. When police asked for his hair to do a DNA test, he couldn't rip it out fast enough.

"At any given time, there were a hundred things we could have done differently if we were guilty," Taylor said.

By day's end, Taylor was locked up in the Wake County jail.

"It's so frustrating to go up against all these people," Taylor said. "They have all this power. You have the truth, but they refuse to look at it."

A jury convicted him based on a jailhouse snitch's testimony and vague statements by a prostitute. Over the next decade, county, state and federal judges would block every attempt to undo his conviction.

Daughter lost hope

Kristen Puryear spent her entire childhood thinking police were bad.

"They took my daddy," says Puryear, 26.

As a girl, she couldn't understand why her dad was out that night or why police thought the man who read her stories was a murderer.

One day she got home from school, and her dad was gone for good. For Christmas that year, her grandmother brought her a gold cross from her father. She's worn it every day since, and pinned it under her wedding dress as a substitute for her father's escort.

Taylor missed Kristen's prom, her birthdays, her high school and college graduations. He missed her wedding, too, and the birth of her son, Charles.

"I had lost hope he would get out," said Puryear. "No one would listen."

When she visited her father, they talked about her studies at Virginia Tech, her new house, her husband. Last year, he held his grandson, leaning across the visitor's table to take the sleeping baby from his daughter.

These days, their conversations have switched to talking about the adventures they'll have when and if Taylor is free. Kristen is eager to take him to a Virginia Tech football game. She's planning to cook a feast for his first meal as a free man.

Taylor prepares, too. He flips through his certificates and diplomas, wondering which might help him land a job. He scans the shelves in the prison library, wondering if there's a book to help him get ready for this transition.

He's not sure how to begin again. He is almost the age his parents were when he went into prison.

"I don't know what 47 is, I only know what 31 is," Taylor said. "I think I want to go home and be invisible for a while."

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_ … 13985.html

Hi kayd and welcome to chordie! I suggest you toy around with the screen resolution settings on your computer. The 5 popular songs "box" should squeeze nicely in the top right corner above the song box. At least it does on all songs I view. Hope that helps!

^ badeye - like I said, I got off cheap as I only had to send it across the same state. I had some old .42 cent stamps laying around (postage just increased in the US to .44) so I slapped 3 of them on there I think. I didn't get it weighed, just took a guess. A single stamp may have been enough. I guess we are doing our parts to keep the postal service in business.

For the folks who are watching and interested in receiving the package, it may be helpful for you to hit the "subscribe to this topic" on the bottom of the forum. That way you should get an email when this topic is updated and may give you an edge in getting it next.

Did you install the strap button yourself? If so, you are now also a Luthier!