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I’m not a huge fan of blues music. Although I recognize its influence, it tends to strike me as somewhat formulaic and predictable. There are exceptions, though, and fairly close to the top of that list would be Cricklewood Green, a 1970 release by Ten Years After. While I don’t remember how it ended up [...]            Tim March 8th, 2013 | Tags: 1970s, Alvin Lee, Music, rock, Woodstock | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) |  Print This Post |  Email This PostIt’s been a long time since I’ve done a Midweek Music Moment but I’m going to try and do them again, although I know there will not be weekly installments like before. What triggers this is seeing that Welcome To Goose Creek by Goose Creek Symphony was released this week in 1971. I probably [...] Tim March 6th, 2013 | Tags: bluegrass, Midweek Music Moment, Music, rock | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostLike perhaps most everyone, occasionally something strikes you that makes you think about those three or five people, dead or alive, you would invite to dinner if your could. Now anyone who reads this blog might well think that Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are on the “must invite” list. To be honest, though, I [...] Tim November 2nd, 2012 | Tags: biography, Book Reviews, Bruce Springsteen, Music, nonfiction, Review Copy, rock | Category: Book Reviews, Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI’ve never investigated if publishers push autobiographies and memoirs to a particular time of year. All I know is they’ve dominated my reading lately. Four of the last five books I’ve read (and five of the last eight) are autobiographies/memoirs. (Who decides when a work crosses the line between autobiography and memoir?) All four [...] Tim October 17th, 2012 | Tags: Book Reviews, Damien Echols, memoir, Music, Neil Young, Pete Townshend, reading, rock, Salman Rushdie | Category: A Reading Life, Book Reviews | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostIf there’s one thing that can be said about music, it’s that as much as we may love it we generally don’t want to think about it. After all, music speaks to the emotions, not logic. That’s why if you ask someone about the music they like, you will get a list of genres or [...] Tim January 17th, 2011 | Tags: Book Reviews, Music, nonfiction, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews, Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostSomething that had been in the back a my mind for a while really started to sink in with last week’s announcement of the Grammy nominees — age is not only staring me in the face, it is slapping it. Ever since this blog started, I’ve had an annual post on my record of the [...] Tim December 6th, 2010 | Tags: jazz, Music, rock | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostTo be honest, I was surprised at the length of Keith Richards’ autobiography, Life. And, all in all, it is far from an insipid celebrity memoir. To the contrary, it provides interesting insight into the guitarist’s life and some of the exaggerated tales of his life. It does ramble a bit but there’s far more [...] Tim November 5th, 2010 | Tags: Music, Rolling Stones | Category: A Reading Life, Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostAnyone who’s attended a Bob Dylan concert knows he is far from a gregarious stage presence. After attending several of his concerts, my wife and I remarked to each other at a show in Minneapolis that he’d actually spoken to the audience other than announcing a song title or saying “Thanks.” But if you think [...] Tim September 29th, 2010 | Tags: Bob Dylan, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostSometime in the summer of 1999, I popped Santana’s Supernatural into the CD player in one of our vehicles. From the back seat, I heard one of my kids (aged 8 to 13) ask in the combination disdainful/incredulous tone only kids can achieve, “Since when did you start listening to Santana?” They were just a [...] Tim September 27th, 2010 | Tags: classic rock, Music, Review Copy, Santana | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostThere seems to be a cultural convergence happening here. Or maybe I’m just noticing because four of my favorite things are involved — music, books, film and hockey. It started last night with a George Winston concert. Perhaps because he records on the Windham Hill label, Winston gets placed in the “New Age” category. (Question: [...] Tim September 24th, 2010 | Tags: Books, movies, Music, USHL | Category: A Reading Life, Culture, Film, Hockey, Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |
      
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