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Category Archives: Music
WITH A TREMBLING HAND
. . . I clutch the magical object.
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OUT OF THE BLUE
Sometimes I don’t know you, you’re like someone else — but that’s all right, I’m a stranger here myself . . .
WHY WE FIGHT
. . . because a nation capable of producing a genius like this is worth defending against all its enemies, foreign and domestic.
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WHY WE FIGHT
SINATRA: THE LIFE
This is an extensively researched and highly detailed biography of Sinatra, very readable and entertaining. As with any Sinatra biography it dwells at some length on the dark and sensational aspects of the singer’s life, but this is offset by a genuine appreciation of Sinatra’s art and a sincere effort to evoke the genius of it.
Recommended.
PRESSING ON
Gotta keep pushing — play this in your car sometime, it will improve your gas mileage . . .
THE DAYS OF ’49
One of my favorite Dylan recordings, and much on my mind when writing Missouri Green, a Gold Rush tale, which has a couple of references to the song . . .
SHE LOVES YOU
. . . and you know that can’t be bad.
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THE GREAT MAN SPEAKS
THE MUSIC GOES ROUND AND ROUND
FIFTY YEARS AGO
. . . this single was released.
Peter Stone Brown writes:
It was at the time the fastest selling single in the history of Warner Brothers Records, selling 320,000 copies in eight days, and eventually reached #2 on the charts. It was also the first time Peter, Paul & Mary recorded a song with the specific intent to be a single. All their previous singles were album tracks. There is no doubt that this recording more than anything propelled the career of Bob Dylan, who it had recorded the song a little less than 11 months earlier.
It was my first encounter with the music of Bob Dylan. All the older hip teenagers I knew were talking about it — not about the song so much as about its composer. “He’s only 20!” they said. “He sings like an old man! He’s already written a thousand songs!” Stuff like that.
The Dylan legend was beginning. Fifty years ago and it seems like yesterday . . .
LIKE A ROLLING STONE
Is this the greatest rock and roll song of all time? Or is it “Satisfaction”? Or is it “She Loves You”? Or is it “Shake, Rattle and Roll”? Or is it just whichever one you happen to be listening to at any given moment in time?
LOVE WITHOUT END, AMEN
This made me cry — and I don’t care if the NSA knows it.
With thanks to Sean Daniel . . .
AN LP COVER FOR TODAY
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