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From The Stacks: ‘Chinga Chavin’s Country Porn’
This seemed like the right time to bust this one out, given the current news cycle.
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April’s Picks: October 2016
Politics, shmolitics, let’s get to the music.
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Do You Need A Plumber Or A President? The Importance of Domain Knowledge
In an election year littered with strange weeks, this one might have been the strangest.
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From The Stacks: Bert Sommer — ‘We’re All Playing In the Same Band’ (White Label Promo)
Now here’s a record with a story; well, two stories.
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Deep Cuts: Too Late Songs
I missed my Monday deadline: No true tale of liquor, lust, and primer-gray Camaros for you this week.
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Throw Beck Thursday: The Alton Ellis Incident
Misfits come in all shapes and sizes, at least Alton Ellis did. He was 6’4″ easy, though his clothes were 5’8″. He had a huge pimply nose in the middle of a huge pimply face with thick nightcrawler lips and tiny little eyes. Framing this lovely portrait was a bail of unruly weathered hay, yellow,…
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Deep Cuts: Hill Songs
That little hill on the working class side of Denver may have been my first, but it was not my last.
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The Blue (Almost) Stingray
Larry wasn’t the coolest kid in the neighborhood, but he owned the coolest bicycle.
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From The Stacks: ‘Copulating Rhythm, Volume 2’
I never pass up compilations of dirty (or druggy) blues and jazz songs.
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Throw Beck Thursday: The Importance Of Being Bowie
David Bowie ended the 1970s in April 1983, drove a stake through their Angel Flight hearts like some sort of dance-friendly Van Helsing. Let’s Dance wasn’t Bowie’s first album in the decade—that honor belongs to 1980’s brilliant Scary Monsters—but it was his first album of the decade. Suntanned, perfect blond coif, bright suits with padded…
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