Monthly Archives: October 2010
Moonlighting again
Just a quick little post to remind you that we also do a bit of business over at a lightly traveled little blog called The Midnight Tracker. We don’t post there often, but that frequency feels right. It emerges from … Continue reading
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Another gift from Solomon Burke
Confession, they say, is good for the soul. Solomon Burke, a preacher man, would like that. So here is mine. Before I started digging music blogs some five years ago, I knew only vaguely about Solomon Burke, who billed himself … Continue reading
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They say it’s your birthday, John
John Lennon would have been 70 today. I wonder whether time would have mellowed his opinion of this song, which he did in the studio with Paul McCartney in September 1968. “Birthday,” Underground Sunshine, Intrepid 75002 7-inch, 1969. It’s out … Continue reading
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Back into that groove
Get paid. Go to the record store. Buy two or three records. That’s how it went, every two weeks from the mid-’70s until sometime in the early to mid-’90s. Now, all these years later, I’m slowly getting back into that … Continue reading
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Getting in the swim
There always has been music at the pool. There certainly was in the summer of 1976. We hung out at the pool where our friend Herb worked. The ladies loved Herb, so it was good to be his pal. Hello, … Continue reading
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