2007 stuff I liked the mostIke Reilly, We Belong to the Staggering EveningKelly Willis, Translated from LoveThe Gourds, Noble CreaturesChip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, Live at the Ruhr TriennaleToni Price, Talk MemphisKings of Leon, Because the TimesThe Fall, Reformation Post TLC (“White Line Feverâ€)The Fall Box SetSarah Borges & the Broken Singles, Diamonds in the DarkEilen Jewell, Letter from
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Kent Ford
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The other Roger Miller, king of the code
ExegesisI read a vaguely recent interview, in something called "Popcorn Youth," with Roger Miller, Mission of Burma guitarist. What he said there doesn’t really make sense, as though rock movements were usually, as he implied, revolutions aimed at taking on the man. At one point Miller explained (forgive me for quoting at length, I hope it's public domain): “Here’s another one of my theor...
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Rufus Thomas, Memphis blues and soul singer
Slice of LifeIn 1997, Rufus Thomas spent the better part of a week with us, in Massachusetts, where we’d brought him to headline a local blues festival. Rufus was eighty at the time, and he made a splash, as he always made a splash, on a hot September day, in his shocking pink cape and pants-suit, taking over the stage at the Framingham Blues Festival, much to Leon Russell's chagrin. My famil...
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