Category: Music
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1965 in Music
I loved playing cds in the car. I have thousands of cds, and I want to listen to them all over and over — though of course in practice some of them get buried for years before resurfacing. When cds first disappeared from cars, I would put the discs on flash drives and play them…
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Wednesday Night CDs
/Asleep at the Wheel/Half a Hundred Years // released 2021/acquired 2024/listened 2025 One of the surprising things that happened when I watched Ken Burns’ documentary series on country music was that I discovered an unsuspected fondness for Western swing music – popularized in the 1930s by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. So I listened…
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Sumer Is Icumen In
the pagan sound of british and irish folk 1966-1975 Released 2020/Acquired 2021/Listened 2022 Back in 1975, I found a British package called Electric Muse in the import section of a local record store. It was a 4-album box set subtitled “The Story of Folk into Rock,” and acts listed on the front included The Chieftains,…
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High Wide & Handsome
Loudon Wainwright III Released 2009/Acquired 2021/Listened 2022 This is subtitled “The Charlie Poole Project,” and the back cover reads “A Grand Gathering of Songs Both Old and Original…Loudon Wainwright III revisits the life, times, and recorded legacy of legendary singer and banjo picker Charlie Poole (1892-1931).” Charlie Poole was a very early recording artist, part…
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Forever Man
Eric Clapton Released 2015/Acquired 2020/Listened 2022* Eric Clapton, never easy, has become a more problematic person than ever with his anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination statements. An article I read said he was becoming very isolated, with few of his friends even calling him anymore. Holding such views, of course, not only puts yourself at risk, it…