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Children of the Corn
Not long ago a new book of mine, Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon, arrived on little...
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Fame
I discover I’m mentioned in Adam Gopnik’s latest memoir, At the Stranger’s Gate, when he describes going to...
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Gershwin Hatches the Egg
Pick hits from my program last week: In 1924, three weeks before he premiered Rhapsody in Blue and...
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Standing in the Shadows of Stax
Last week I came upon two major examples of The Song Behind the Song. Like so many things,...
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Judy Judy
Among the great women folk singers of the early to mid Sixties, Joan and Judy (Baez and Collins)...
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Krazy Kats
Last week being pledge-drive time at the station (wmpg.org, it’s never too late) I brought back some old...
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Iron Womb
Last week I was putting together a set of songs for my show (Dog’s Breakfast, Monday mornings, 5-6:30...
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Ondrej Goes to Hollywood
Ondrej Havelka and His Melody Makers, whose music I’ve featured on-air a couple of times, are like Max...
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The Long Fingers of Claude Debussy
In the early 1960s an album called “The First Family” appeared, comedy bits making fun of the Kennedy...
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Ornithology
I’m presently wrestling with Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, a fact I’m sharing because I came across a mention...
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South America Stole Our Name #2
Randy Newman has a new album out, Dark Matter, his first in nine years. One cut that especially struck...
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Nina Simone and the Inexplicable Grammy
On last night’s show I played the title cut from Nina Simone’s debut album, Little Girl Blue (1958). It’s...