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Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #31 Jan-Feb 2001
Hello Stranger from Issue #31
Our most recently concluded presidential lottery is the first for which I might Constitutionally have been eligible. It is, remember, no longer required that one be a landed white male to stand for that office, but one must still have mustered the theoretical wisdom of 40 years. Years ago I had just the arrogance and [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #31 Jan-Feb 2001
Moises “Blondie” Calderon: 1940 to 2000
No one who has seen Ray Price & the Cherokee Cowboys in the past three decades will forget the band’s pianist, Blondie Calderon. Besides serving as leader and arranger for one of the most respected bands in American popular music, Calderon also traded gibes with Price throughout the show in recent years, and his spirited [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #31 Jan-Feb 2001
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack)
Soundtracks are mostly a plague, golden for those artists lucky enough to place a song onscreen, pre-packaged compilations for lazy consumers, and aggravating collector’s items for completist fans. Only rarely are they about the music. O Brother, then, is the rarest of soundtracks: Glorious music, coherently programmed. O Brother, Where Art Thou? is Joel and [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #31 Jan-Feb 2001
Get A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues: The Arthur Alexander Story
Arthur Alexander may best be remembered as the first artist to have had his songs recorded by the ’60s triumvirate of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. In Get A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues, Richard Younger shows the Alabama native’s songwriting and vocal style made him far more than an answer to [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #31 Jan-Feb 2001
Arlo Guthrie – Outlasting The Blues / Power Of Love
Outlasting the Blues (1979) features Arlo Guthrie on the cover with a saxophone, a bad but unrepresentative sign. Inside he offers some of the most searching — of self, society and spirit — lyrics he ever wrote. “In the event of my demise,” he starts, “Be sure to include this statement.” Over the course of [...]
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