Tag: folk
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The Great Sexy Halloween Costume Debate 1 of 4
My favorite singer/songwriter, Jill Sobule, has been charming us with this little ditty for several autumns now. It’s pretty much become a Halloween standard.
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Tunesday : 1988 Revolution Music–Tracy Chapman
1988 was probably the most pivotal year in my developing taste in music. Until that point, I’d pretty much been a bit of a drifter, taste-wise, taking what I liked from what my friends exposed me to–I could still remember being excited for months before the first “Asia” supergroup album came out in when I…
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Tunesday: Lindi Ortega
Another great, slightly under-the-radar singer/songwriter: Lindi Ortega doing “All My Friends.” I picked this song in particular because not only is it a fantastic song by a talented artist with a mesmerizing voice, it would make the perfect opening song on a soundtrack of my nearly-finished novel, which opens with a whole lot of the…
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Rod McKuen, RIP to the King of Troubadours
Does the name Rod McKuen mean anything to you? It should, if you’re in your mid forties or older and had a mother or grandmother (or were one yourself) with a pulse in the mid 1960’s to late 1970’s. At that time, a modestly talented San Francisco-based self-styled troubadour played on his ruffled good looks,…
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Friday Morning Rock n Roll Idols: Poi Dog Pondering (video link repaired)
Poi Dog Pondering–I can’t think of a better band to throw out here as we enjoy the first truly warm days of spring. One of the most enjoyable shows I ever saw was in the old Graffiti Lounge in Pittsburgh, late Spring 1990, for a triple bill featuring John Wesley Harding, Poi Dog Pondering, and…
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Micro/Psuedo-Intellectualism
I took a free online course on Coursera recently–read some good old books. For each selection, students were required to write a brief, 350-word essay that was then distributed to five random classmates for peer review. The following dreck was my first offering, which was modestly reviewed–two of my five peers, one English and another…
Old Road Apples 