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  • Gene Clark: Sidewalk scenes and black limousines

    Bottom line: Our series on forgotten bands continues with folk- and country-rock pioneer Gene Clark, who wrote the best original songs on The Byrds’ first two albums, Mr. Tambourine Man and Turn! Turn! Turn! Exhibit A: “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better.” (On Fifth Dimension, he co-wrote “Eight Miles High.”)…

  • The Beau Brummels: Lonely, oh so lonely

    The Beau Brummels: Lonely, oh so lonely

    Bottom line: Five guys from the folk-rock scene in San Francisco who developed a taste for country. Three Top 40 hits, including one in the Top 10 (“Just a Little”), and two more that broke the Top 100. How can a band that placed five songs in the Top 100…

  • Attention must be paid

    By this point of my life, I expected to be famous, with a house shaped like a rook, five ex-wives, an agent who bathes her StairMastered curves in champagne, and an attorney named Bernie. I’ve fallen short of these goals, but I remain undaunted. Certain people I am married to…

  • My 5 favorite things about working (and my 5 not-favorites)

    I am now within 18 months of retiring. I know how to go to work every day. But how do you go to work every day when you know there aren’t many more days? “The only dedication for us is art and life. And this office has nothing to do…

  • Let’s wrap this puppy up

    Right you film fans. Our look at movies about music concludes with Category D: Old biopic crud from Hollywood, by which I mean everything from before Hollywood discovered that not all people are white. I was mainly thinking of the ’50s and before, but once I seriously got into this,…