Category: music
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Almost famous
Boomtown David + David 1986 David Baerwald and David Ricketts were Californians with musical roots in Bruce Springsteen’s The River. They called themselves David + David on Boomtown, their only album. David Baerwald and David Ricketts should not be confused with David Whitson and David Phillips, two Texans who also…
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Ain’t that peculiar
The Complete Motown Singles, 1959-1972 Various artists 2005-2013 In 2005, Universal (which owns Motown) began re-releasing every Motown single ever made. Volume 1 covered 1959-1961. The end of the series, volumes 12A and B, covered 1972. These 14 years set loose a tidal wave of 2,000 songs. When I heard…
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I don’t know if the cotton is high, but our hedge sure is
As I write this here in the United States, we’re nearing the end of the three-day weekend devoted to Memorial Day. This is my favorite holiday, the holiday with an entire summer up its sleeve. The weather has been abfab and the house projects ended well, without the traditional two…
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I’m super-freaking because our next president might be a bad-tempered, orange-tinted Teletubby who doesn’t have the brains God gave a walrus. Other than that, I’m good.
It’s about fucking time I said this, so here it is, plain and simple, because I am through holding back: I love Rick James! I first met the late Mr. James in a parking lot in Boston. In that summer of 1978, when I thought punk was a joke because…
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When your heart is full of love, you’re nine feet tall
Prince died today. What is happening with this odd year of 2016? David Bowie, Prince, Maurice White, Merle Haggard. Meanwhile, Donald Trump will outlive all of us. A coworker stopped by my office and gave me the news. She was close to tears. She said, “He was my childhood!” Well,…
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