Some music just stays with you through the years. You may forget about it for a while, it may get lost for long lengths of time in the flotsam and jetsam of life, but you always find it again (or maybe it finds you.) Ever since stumbling on the Devils Wielding Scimitars’ Worry Dolls CD…
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The Police’s “So Lonely” and a Mondegreen
Funny how we can mishear the lyrics to a song and the whole meaning can be changed (a “mondegreen“, as it were.) I was sitting in a café the other day and “So Lonely” by the Police was playing in the background. In my mind I was brought back in time to when I was…
Sunflower River Blues
The Sunflower River (aka The Big Sunflower River) flows down through the flat western Mississippi delta bottomland, paralleling the Mississippi River and only separated by that granddaddy of all rivers by a few miles on average. It’s a region rich in history, one of the birthplaces of the blues, with a who’s who of legendary…
Maximum Yield: The Posies’ “Flood of Sunshine”‘s Roots in Led Zeppelin’s “Thank You”
The Posies’ second album, 1990’s Dear 23 (which received the reissue treatment last month) was the sound of a band coming into its own. In fact, it was the first real “band” Posies album; their first, Failure, largely a duo work by leaders Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer. Dear 23 was a rich, textured collection…
The Essex Green – “Hardly Electronic”
Summer and the Essex Green. It’s a good combo. The vintage yet timeless sound of the band is like the warm sun on those forested Vermont mountains where they first strummed their instruments years ago. It’s been a long time coming for band members Sasha Bell, Jeff Baron and Chris Ziter – 12 years, to…
The Vinyl Detective – An Interview with Author Andrew Cartmel
Readers of this blog will have come across my enthusiastic reviews of two of the books in Andrew Cartmel‘s Vinyl Detective mystery series (Written in Dead Wax and The Run-Out Groove.) The protagonist of the series is a sleuth who gets hired to find particular rare records. Along the way his searches end up involving…
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