Someday Soon

Posted on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 @ 1:01 pm
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My "play a randomly-selected selection you haven't played yet" playlist has just popped up Ian Tyson's Someday Soon, the best song on an album I've purchased several times.  A short story....

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Ars Nova

Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 @ 7:47 pm
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Oh, to have been in Boulder last weekend....

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Summer Concert

Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2004 @ 1:28 pm
Filed Under Macalester College, Musick
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Macalester College had a student-run coffee house, No Exit, which lived behind the college grill in the Student Union's basement in the late '60s. It was a cozy, black-painted place with good entertainment, good sound, and decent food.  Leo, who struck me as a young white man impersonating an old drunken blues singer, played there regularly when I was a freshman and a sophomore.  (The music redeemed the act.)

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Gracenotes: CDDB

Posted on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 @ 10:14 am
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Question:  Is "good enough" really good enough?  The answer probably depends on what you were hoping for.

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Bob Seger Day: all of Chuck’s Children

Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 @ 3:02 pm
Filed Under Family, Joel, Musick
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Joan and I have rather different musical tastes.  Joan mainly listens to classic rock radio; while I'm fairly eclectic, my preferences for bluegrass and baroque music are choices Joan barely tolerates.  At this edge--Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp--our tastes touch and we're both comfortable.  I mention this because Joan was in the audience at one of the Cobo Hall concerts taped to make the Seger album.  Wish I'd been there.

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