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Tag Archives: #music
Pandemic Plusses: James McMurtry Shares a Great Notion
Amid all the Coronavirus blues we got going on, there are some moments to applaud. Celebrities are giving online performances or reading children’s books (the LeVar Burton/Neil Gaiman exchange was beautiful, and worth Googling), or adapting to quarantine and doing … Continue reading
Pandemic Plusses: The Last Thing I Expected to Do During the Pandemic Was Dance
Outside, a human wanders by, alone. Then no one comes into view for long stretches of time. A geezer wanders by with a small dog and a filled plastic bag. Remember back in the good old days when plastic bags … Continue reading
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Tagged #amlistening, #amwriting, #classicrock, #coronavirus, #dancing, #flotsamandjetsam, #igrieve, #intoureyes, #music, #pandemic, #petergabriel, #selfcare, #sledgehammer
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Advice to a young artist
(I wrote this to a former student and musician who posted on FB a cool bit of music video of him playing a work in progress. He called it “trash” and, well …. This happened.) Stop calling your contributions to … Continue reading
Posted in America, comics, digital publishing, ebook publishing, education, fiction, film, independent publishing, love, Music, pop culture, self-publishing, writing
Tagged #art, #artlover, #booklover, #criticism, #filmlover, #music, #musiclover
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Neil Young – The Troubling Duality of “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere”
It is impossible to pick the definitive Neil Young album because he has put out so many classics. Some will say the easy choice is Decade but I am working with a rule that anthologies and greatest hits and live … Continue reading
Posted in America, love, Music, pop culture, writing
Tagged #classicrock, #CrazyHorse, #murder, #music, #NeilYoung, #rocktalk
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“David Johansen” Might be the Perfect Album
While reading One Way Out a really strong, engaging oral history of The Allman Brothers Band, I began thinking about all the great music I grew up with, and how so much of it is now being relegated to fading … Continue reading
Posted in America, Music, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged #classicrock, #DavidJohansen, #music, #NewYorkCity, #NewYorkDolls, #rock, #Seventies, #SylvainSylvain
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Music Mondays: Lost Classic – Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes’ I Don’t Want to go Home
While reading One Way Out a really strong, engaging oral history of The Allman Brothers Band, I began thinking about all the great music I grew up with, and how so much of it is now being relegated to fading … Continue reading
Posted in America, love, Music, pop culture
Tagged #classicrock, #Jersey, #Jerseyrock, #music, #rocktalk, #seventies #Bruce #LittleSteven, #SouthsideJohnny
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