Category: Record reviews
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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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Hope is the thing with feathers
Deborah has for many years wielded a white feather boa that she named White Fang. She wore it at dances. She wore it for New Year’s. She wore it to see Lady Gaga. She wore it with Esmerelda and Maybelline, two of her killer party dresses. I won’t say when…
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Lamp unto my feet
Last month’s delivery of the junk my Dad brought home from his voyages with Columbus made me think about flashlights. I have never lacked for flashlights in my adult life because my father was a faithful subscriber to the Flashlight of the Month Club. Dad’s all-purpose emergency plan was to…
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