Another year, another favorites of the year blog entry. I know it’s been quite a while since my last post (about a year, actually) and I don’t know if I’ll be returning to more frequent posting again, but I can’t resist making lists. Lists, wonderful and succulent lists! Okay, moving on… These are the…
Tag: Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen and Nihilistic Vase Smashing
Even the most professional and assured musicians have goofy moments from their early years. Though Bruce Springsteen is one of the most focused and driven artists in the history of rock music, teenage Bruce was still soaking it all in and trying to find his own musical identity, and sometimes…um, not quite succeeding, as he…
Of Refrigerators, Trunks, Tuning Forks, and Marbles
The most expensive box set ever released is actually a refrigerator. $100,000 for a refrigerator full of music and memorabilia from 40+ year old cult band The Residents – but it’s a refrigerator all the same. The most surprising thing about the box set is that it sold. In September, a man going by the…
Jackson Browne’s “Linda Paloma”: A California Mexican Song
“At the moment the music began and you heard the guitar player starting to sing…” With this opening line, Jackson Browne directly invites the listener in to his 1976 song “Linda Paloma”. It’s a song unlike anything else in Browne’s catalog, and not just due to the music. While he’s known for writing subject matter…
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