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Throw Beck Thursday: The Greatest Fourth of July Ever
After my first summer of college, I went home to Boiling Springs, and my best buddy Lee G. and I took jobs at Mr. T’s Fireworks -N- Peaches. That previous sentence is uniquely Southern and probably benefits from a little background. Spartanburg County, South Carolina in the mid-eighties produced more peaches annually than did all…
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April’s Picks: June 2016
How about that April?
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An Idiot With An Opinion
Much too often I catch myself imagining current events through a pop culture prism; well, maybe more of a long pop culture lens.
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From The Stacks: Guns N’ Roses — ‘Live From the Jungle’
Guns N’ Roses released one essential album and you already have it so you’re done, right? Not so fast.
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Dick Gritstone, Pistol-Packing Doctor
Have Americans always been so enamored with guns? Maybe this long lost script for a once popular radio show will tell us.
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Throw Beck Thursday: James Crashes His Car (and His Father)
At age fifteen I should not have been trusted with something as dangerous as a fork, yet the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles issued me a driver license. All it took was two visits to the beehive hairdo lady at the DMV: one for the written exam, and again a few short weeks later…
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Deep Cuts: Useless Songs
Of all the kinds of useless, romantic useless has to be the worst.
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My House Full of Useless Things
I want an old record player, the kind that was handed down to me as a kid. It was a beast of a thing: a suitcase that opened to reveal a turntable. The sides opened, too. Swung wide on their hinges the suitcase’s ends became hi-fi speakers. There wasn’t a solid state component anywhere in…
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From the Stacks: Jimmy Page – ‘Lucifer Rising’
Now here’s a bootleg to get excited about.
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Deep Cuts: Career Songs
Remarkably few of us have careers. We have jobs, but not careers.
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