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Why Do It If It Doesn’t Pay?

By James Stafford on February 22, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Larry Fotine, ‘Listening To Larry’

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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Gerard Kremer, ‘Les Grands Carnavals D’Amerique Latine’

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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Andre Kostelanetz, ‘Calendar Girl’

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The Unappreciated Art of Staying in the Background

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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Arthur Fiedler, ‘Gaite Parisienne’

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7. Your Dreams Were Your Ticket Out

By James Stafford on December 2, 2010 • ( 13 Comments )

After my father left we moved again, this time to a small rental home not too far from our old neighborhood. I didn’t have any interest in another round of fights just […]

6. Just For One Day

By James Stafford on November 22, 2010 • ( 18 Comments )

Life continued in the Chicago suburbs. My baseball skills improved, and I started holding my own in fights. I made a best buddy. We’d play Evel Knievel and Hot Wheels and listen […]

5. Show Me the Way

By James Stafford on November 13, 2010 • ( 6 Comments )

Manilow Madness aside, I did my best to be the manly son my father wanted. I joined the Cub Scouts. I played Little League and flag football. And the thing is I […]

4. My Dark Confession

By James Stafford on November 13, 2010 • ( 5 Comments )

I was hoping to never think about this, much less write about it. This is such a dark corner of my past that I’ve done my best to expurgate it from my […]

3. When Am I Gonna Come Down?

By James Stafford on November 13, 2010 • ( 7 Comments )

The Montgomery Ward Bargain Basement was a frequent destination in my early childhood. My father was a repairman for Wards at the time – one of those guys who drove a van, […]

2. School’s Out Forever

By James Stafford on November 13, 2010 • ( 8 Comments )

Not all of the flotsam from my father’s childhood drifted into my grandfather’s fireplace. When he was a boy growing up in his small mountain town, he struck a deal with the […]

1. The Mamas, The Papas, and The Grandpas

By James Stafford on November 13, 2010 • ( 15 Comments )

My grandfather participated in the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp. I don’t know much more about this than what I’ve gleaned from a briefcase full of faded photographs that surfaced after he […]

The End of Music

By James Stafford on November 13, 2010 • ( Leave a comment )

I have been turning this question over in my mind for years: How can the music industry be dead? I don’t want to bother with the details — there are Google-a-plenty details […]

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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Larry Fotine, ‘Listening To Larry’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Gerard Kremer, ‘Les Grands Carnavals D’Amerique Latine’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Andre Kostelanetz, ‘Calendar Girl’

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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Arthur Fiedler, ‘Gaite Parisienne’

From The Stacks: The Mamas and the Papas, ‘The Papas and the Mamas’

From The Stacks: ‘David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev’s Peter And The Wolf’ (Green Vinyl)

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