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In remembrance of record stores — for some of us, deep sanctuaries of time wonderfully lost in reflective escape. My first experience was as a…
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There’s much flame imagery throughout the 1998 album Since. The final song, Once, alone mentions a fuse, a torch & a spray of lights. But, it was only…
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There are places where something usually happens that maybe you don't realize happened until after you've left because you're in the middle of it & it…
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Let's slip outside the theater of reality for a moment to explore the absurdity of living within it. Stick with me here, then we'll get into the musical…
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this recording features both "bad" & well-meaning "penguin" tambos
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I accidentally chased down the tracking notes for the song Cut while I was hunting around for something else that I've now lost track of again.
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The life of this song from The Hill began in a Death Valley motel week in 1997 with a four-track cassette recorder and a book: Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon…
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. . . she begins asking the server questions about the various southwestern sauces in a voice conveying slight stress or anxious excitement . . .
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only at odds depending on time of night & where toleration may inadvertently take you
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Well, Heavens to Murgatroyd!, here we are again. Just as week 1 of this series got the show on the road midway through an ongoing calendar of fiscal…
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the scene of a multigenerational coven of matriarchs, collected around a kitchen table spirit board & heart-shaped planchette
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I’ll begin this series with the last song on the tape, Believer, because it tail-ends with a few seconds of hubbub where I put the…
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