I'm grudgingly teaching myself guitar. My true love is the piano, and I haven't touched one in years, but my 16-year-old brother doesn't have 4 pianos lying around; he has guitars. (Before you think he's spoiled--well, he is a little, as all youngest siblings are, compared to my coming-of-age experience--but those were all hand-me down guitars. He's not THAT spoiled.) Anyway, guitars are practical
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Posts by Nickelsworth
Me Play Pretty One Day
Leonard Cohen tribute on VH1 Classic 3/10/08
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One of the my favorite songwriters is being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame tonight. As a tribute to Leonard Cohen, Damien Rice will be performing Hallelujah for the occasion (I learned that the show was airing tonight from a Damien Rice email update). "If I were to float off in a balloon and were only allowed to bring the music of one artist, I would chose Leonard Cohen. Very few thing
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Finale (for now).
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Last night, as I’ve mentioned (nay, gushed), was my third Dropkick Murphys concert, and the precise anniversary of my first, and it went off like the perfect final installment of a well-planned trilogy. They came to my territory, for a change, and I came prepared. Normally, I’m content to stay on the fringe of the pit where there are plenty of people packed in, but not as much going on. I’m
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Kiss Me, I'm S***faced (Year-old review)
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One-track mind
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Piano Adagio
"I don't really make playlists.""I don't really write about music."It looks like Shoosh is going to make me eat my words on both points. I don't have much today, but there's plenty a-percolatin' up in this brain of mine.Currently, I'm putting together a mix of sad-sack stuff with strong piano accompaniment. Just the thing you should NOT listen to if you've forgotten to take your Zoloft. (If my ...
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My mind is, in fact, made up.
Just to justify the fact that I bought the Once soundtrack less than an hour after it won an Oscar, I want to mention that I've been eyeballing this movie and its music for a while. First, there were the endless drive-time plugs on NPR, then the recommendation of a saxophone player whose opinion of all things entertainment has, over the years, been a pretty reliable touchstone. I even almost rente
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I'm Sari....two posts in one night.
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