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American Apparel
California Fleece Track Jacket - Price: $45Barry Sunglass, Vintage Eyeware - Price: $55Dixieland Delight - Alabama: Priceless.(Mark Herndon, drums, 1983)Line notes. Commenatry on vinyl LPs. Pop, rock,...
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Say Uncle, Part Two: Here's Johnny!
A while back I wrote this post about Uncle Bill, an old family friend (my parents just visited him and his wife in Germany, and they had a great time). On a recent visit to NYC and VT, I found...
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Scottish Georgics
These days, my life, my anxieties, my hopes, my whole scene, could be summed up, or put in place, or undermined by its own essence, with any number of vaguely agricultural get-up-and-go aphorisms. The...
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[EDITOR'S NOTE: THERE USED TO BE A PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN SHORE HERE, BUT THE LAW CAME AND TOLD US TO TAKE IT DOWN. WE DID, GLADLY. HERE THEN IS A LINK TO THE PHOTO WE REFERENCE IN THE FOLLOWING...
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Dap This
Last night my dear wife and I went to see Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. I happened to stumble upon this cd a while back, and we both liked it a lot. Then she was on Austin City Limits, and...
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I Give Up, Why Can't They?
I had one of those mystical communions with this song, years ago. In a piny subdivision, watching a video documentary about the band. Maybe having smoked some weed. Probably. The tuneful summing up....
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Line notes. Commenatry on vinyl LPs. Pop, rock, folk, prog, indie, so much more. Love.
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Take Your Pick
You Better Run--Pat BenatarYou Better Run--Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel HarmonettesYou Better Run--Iggy & the StoogesLine notes. Commenatry on vinyl LPs. Pop, rock, folk, prog,...
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Ain't No Velvet Glove
As I mentioned, my brother dropped by the other week. He had his external hard drive. There was a lot of data dumpage going on. I retrieved some tidbits from the memory banks. I'm still excavating and...
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Modern Love
1.) It's hard to believe, but the rate of retro exploitation has sped up so fast that it's now acceptable to cop Pavement records, as if new listeners were too young to actually pick up on it. This...
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TIME OUT OF MIND
Here's a Driftwood statistic worth noting: this site's authors have made five children since we began four years ago on Nov. 1, 2005, at 8:45 p.m.A lot has happened, but perennial themes tell a story:...
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This Is Not Only A Test
Today I am reminded of the famous Herman Melville quote: "To produce a mighty blog, you must choose a mighty theme." Done and done. I didn't get on the bus until it was down the road a ways,...
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Just Let Go of Your Mind
The first step is admitting you have a problem. There's also a step involving the realization that you don't have control. I just reached the step where I find some scrap of music on my iPod and I...
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See the People Run and Gather, Something High Has Caught Their Eye
I stumbled on Jim Sullivan, streaming on dinky speakers on my laptop. It's shaggy music, with one toe water-logged in the rippling, sometimes scum-topped, pool of soul-folk -- some damaged DNA shared...
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Blah Blah Blah Top Ten of 2009 (Minus Four)
I listened to more new music this year than I have in a long while. Not sure why. A new phase. Obama. End of the World. But even so, music made by people under 40 (or for that matter, living people)...
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Yep, It's That Time of Year Again: SNAP, CRACKLE & POP, VOLUME 7
I love vinyl record albums -- a LOT. But when you're approaching 40, it starts to get a little embarrassing, doesn't it? It's like, dude, get a job and raise your frickin' children stedda taking up...
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That's the Way It Is
[REVISED!]Every couple of years, I return to the question of whether there's such a thing as a musical "canon," a hierarchy in pop history. It's not fashionable to believe so, what with alternate pop...
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A Selection From Harry Reid's Ipod
The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch--Brian EnoLine notes. Commenatry on vinyl LPs. Pop, rock, folk, prog, indie, so much more. Love.
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Cellular Accounting (Yogic Integers)
I used to work on a farm with a couple yoga teachers, and they'd stop in the row and teach us some stretches. We came up with the theory of "opposite yoga postures" with regard to bending and weeding...
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BIG AND RICH
Found a beautiful compilation of early Charlie Rich in a junk shop in Red Hook today (Songs for Beautiful Girls, Pickwick/33). I'll forgo the overstatement: maybe the most soulful white man ever...
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Knights of Infinite Resignation
The Detroit Harmonettes pass the obscurity test. Can't find much of a trace on wikipedia or elsewhere on the web, and one has to bore down deep into rare European compilations to track down a trail....
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Mogrify Me
There was some delicious false hope in the air today. A taste of spring that was snatched back as soon as the sun went down. But while the fantasy lasted I got out with the kids (waddled in mud and...
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WE TWEET! (FOLLOW USTH)
Here at TDSP, the rate at which we go back in time is at least five times the rate forward, essentially leaving us terminally in the 1970s. But we still do go forward occasionally. Some. A bit. Now and...
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Fix My Mind
I've been stewing in this new/forthcoming Damien Jurado record for a few weeks now. The alchemical transformation of downerism into uplift is an ongoing mystery. There's a stretched horizon of...
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Flirtin' with Disaster
Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark,For the straightforward pathway had been lost.A friend stopped me on the street yesterday to point out that I was riding a...
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