Monday, March 23, 2015

Of Mice and Music

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Readers of this blog may recall that I venerate the venerable Roots Music label Arhoolie (see posts Here and There ); owner/producer Chris ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Stall, Y'all

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I've not resumed general posting here for one overriding reason: the shakes are creeping back. The level of R & R (that's Repair...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Calling Lee Majors!

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Well, I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own bloodshot eyes... It took a few hours of testing frequencies, but by noo...
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Saturday, January 24, 2015

Now What?

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Christmas, New Year's, Martin Luther King day... three weeks farther along with little or no change. New holes in my skull, ugly stitche...
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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Sitting in Limbo

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No photos this time, just my rambling thoughts. * * * * * A rum-happy tourist clumsily Limbo dancing enjoys a whole lot mo...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

David Stone Martin, Graphically

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And so we come to the pater familias of record jacket illustrator/designers, Mr. David Stone Martin. Samples of his artistry and sometimes ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Burt Goldblatt (Giving Thanks for)

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Can't trust the old Memory all the way to the wall these days the way I useta could, but umpteen years ago when eBay was really hoppin...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

William Claxton, Photographer

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For the first year or three of this blog, I regularly tested the familiar mathematical formula regarding the respective worth of pictures an...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman: Burrito Brothers

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In the annals of Rock Music, the most historically significant interview I ever conducted came during the brief tenure of the Flying Burrito...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Which Rick Nelson?

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Over the course of his four-decade, yet tragically crash-shortened career, rocker Rick Nelson managed to do some creditable acting too, from...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

John Hammond's True Blues

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I do quite like the idea of "3"... it's the most basic "family" unit (that is, source parents plus child), the minim...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Odd Duck

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Welcome to the Club... Mister E-for-Ed's Animalia, a happily brief mini-series of odes and en-souciants, past posts and pesky poems. (...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Grin and Bear It

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As my life stalls, so do these musings. I will live to write again, but at present am On Leave. A few fill-ins, best-ofs, and brought-back...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Po'Ed's PoEdtry PostEd

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The dog days of August are upon us, and I'm on hold, caught up in health issues and surgical decisions (with in -cisions likely to come)...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014

And Grateful Too: Louis MacNeice

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"Between the Wars"... that's what the Twenties and Thirties in Great Britain came to be labeled, defined in retrospect as a ti...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

RecommendEd

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I, Ed, witness now poorly standing, do herewith and hear-abouts, by means of quick peeks at certain under-praised (if not outright overlooke...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Hall of New Hampshire

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Twenty-six years ago now--in late Spring of 1988--Sandie and I were settling in. We’d been back in the States for several months, had gotten...
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Friday, May 16, 2014

Fathers and Sons

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I have a good friend named Kim Krummeck. He's an attorney who works on behalf of neglected service veterans and benefits-denied workers....
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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Altamont Aftermath

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And Death shall have no dominion. The Grateful Dead bailed; and the Stones came late to their own party--delayed (we were told later) by t...