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The Elocutionist from Hoboken
Sinatra’s elocution, his phrasing, the way he could articulate both words and melody simultaneously was uncanny, immaculate, perfection. ...
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Apr 30, 20231 min read
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Joe Henry - Reverie (2011)
Joe Henry is the perfect storm of singer/songwriter/producer. Right out of the box, the singular sound of his production is always...
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Apr 17, 20232 min read
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NYC '95 part 2
Back in Cincinnati when my girl dumped me I was bummin' and hurt bad. So I drank a lot and tried to make time with everything that moved...
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Apr 10, 20234 min read
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NYC '95 part 1
By the time I moved to New York City in the spring of 1995 I had been thinking about it and talking about it for a long time. I had been...
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Apr 5, 20233 min read
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LITTLE AXE - Champagne and Grits, 2004
Little Axe Champagne & Grits Real World Records, 2004 Son of a Bluesman and one time member of the legendary Sugar Hill Records rhythm...
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Mar 28, 20232 min read
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ON THE ROAD WITH SPARROW BELLOWS ~ Part 2
Saturday March 20, 2010 Austin, TX Saturday was a long and lazy day for our party. After staying up way too late partying Friday night,...
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Mar 20, 20236 min read
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ON THE ROAD WITH SPARROW BELLOWS ~ part 1
Flashback to March 2010! Much like Christ had Satan, Buddha’s arch-nemesis is a nasty entity known as Mara. All the obstructions and...
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Mar 14, 20238 min read
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BIG TRIP Chapter 7
20 years ago I took a cross-country solo journey through 17 states, driving 5,600 miles over a 6-week period. Tent camping alone most...
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Mar 6, 202311 min read
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Hear Now: Be Where When?
Every breath is miraculous. Every heartbeat, every synapse. Every millisecond of our existence is a miracle. Many of us struggle with...
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Feb 26, 20232 min read
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Berlin at Magic Mountain in 1983
Berlin at Magic Mountain February 20, 1983 Forty years ago this week I was on a family vacation in Southern California and we went to...
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Feb 22, 20232 min read
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Frank Zappa's TINSEL TOWN REBELLION
I was talking to a good friend recently about Frank Zappa's 1981 double album TINSEL TOWN REBELLION. Ostensibly a record review, this is...
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Feb 16, 20236 min read
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75 KISS TRIVIA QUESTIONS
KISS TRIVIA TIME! Which one of the four solo albums contains no cover tunes? PAUL STANLEY Which member of the band was born in 1949? GENE...
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Feb 9, 20235 min read
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Always Is Never : And Back Again
You as a teenager. You will always be that person and you will never be that person again. It's like a story you started writing when you...
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Jan 30, 20231 min read
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YOU GOTTA HEAR THIS RECORD: Manitas De Plata - Juerga!
Manitas De Plata - Juerga! (Originally released in 1963) I originally bought this album for the cover. I mean, LOOK at that. My first...
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Jan 25, 20232 min read
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER: Meeting Paul Westerberg in 1989
On March 11, 1989 I saw the Replacements at Bogart's in Cincinnati. This was my third or fourth time seeing the band and they were great...
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Jan 16, 20232 min read
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FRACTURED SWISS MIRROR CHEESE
Stand before a mirror and see your reflection. Take a hammer and strike the mirror with just enough force to make it crack. You can still...
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Jan 12, 20232 min read
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A Dream I Had About Jimmy Page
April 3, 2022 I had a dream that I went to a Jimmy Page concert with Tony Keefer and Andy Schwertman. It was in a small theater, but I...
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Jan 5, 20232 min read
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A Dream I Had About Opening A Record Store
December 24, 2022 I dreamt I opened a record store. Somehow it all started by hanging out by the train tracks in a rough part of town...
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Dec 28, 20222 min read
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A Dream I Had About NRBQ
December 10, 2022 I had a dream I was playing with NRBQ. But it was also the classic Gig Day Nightmare. I had a very brief unsatisfying...
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Dec 21, 20221 min read
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RECORD FIRSTS: A Pre-History of My Career in Record Stores
Many of the first records I bought as a kid were purchased at the Gold Circle department store in Cassinelli Square across the street...
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Dec 16, 20222 min read
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