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Michael Goldberg

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Member Since

over 3 years ago

Total Posts

805

Total Comments

623

Current Artist Influences

Looking Back

  • San Francisco, American Music Club - 1994
  • Blonde On Blonde, Bob Dylan - 1966
  • Goodbye And Hello, Tim Buckley - 1967
  • This Year's Model, Elvis Costello - 1978
  • Stage Fright, The Band - 1970
  • Feats Don't Fail Me Now, Little Feat - 1974

Vital Signs

  • Mogger Since

    December 05, 2005

Posts

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California Girl Meets Clarksdate, Mississippi
2 months ago
  • Artist:
    Vinnie C

Bluesman Vinnie C sings the blues on a Saturday morning. Photo by Leslie GoldbergMy wife Leslie put together a very cool slideshow of photos she took while we were in the birthplace of the blues, Clarksdale, MS.This link will take you to her blog and you can get to the slideshow from there. It's pretty cool.http://meanwhile-i.blogspot.com/

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Blues On The Streets of Clarksdale, Mississippi
2 months ago

T-Model Ford getting his hands dirty outside Hambone Gallery. Photo by Michael GoldbergSo I was in this cool folk art gallery called Hambone, run by this painter/musician, Stan Street, looking at these monster-cool blues paintings of Robert Johnson and death and the beauty of the Southern landscape, when I notice my whole body is rocking out to his hard heavy blues, kinda electric blues makes m...

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New! Stream Vic Chesnutt Colaboration with Fugazi and Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3 months ago

The esteemed singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt, a favorite of many, many artists, from R.E.M. to Madonna, Bill Frisell and Elf Power, will have his latest album, At the Cut, out Sept. 22 on Constellation records. This is the second album in which members of Fugazi and Godspeed You! Black Emperor have backed him. He'll begin a tour, backed by the same artists who play on the album, Oct. 23. Check ...

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MOG Meter

Status
Blazing

Albums You Should Know About

  • "Telephono," Spoon
  • Harper's Arrow, Sarah Dougher
  • Springtime Can Kill You, Jolie Holland
  • Crashing The Either, Tommy Keene
  • Ballad Of The Broken Seas, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
  • I've Got My Own Hell To Raise, Bettye Lavette
  • It Don't Bother Me, Bert Jansch
  • Fleur Carnivore, Carla Bley
  • The Covers Record, Cat Power
  • Catalpa, Jolie Holland
  • Five Pillars Of Soul, John Wilkes Booze

My Current Fave New Sounds

  • The Night Races Into Anna, The Green Pajamas
  • Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits
  • Catastrophe Keeps Us Together, Rainer Maria
  • Rather Ripped, Sonic Youth
  • Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, Various Artists
  • The River In Reverse, Elvis Costello & Allen Tourssaint
  • Stadium Arcadium, Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Living With War, Neil Young

Fave Authors

  • J. D. Saliinger
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Mikhail Bulgakov
  • William Gibson

Best Nightspots

  • Great American Music Hall

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