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Despite its light and accessible tone, the formative years of TV’s Soul Train was a subtle revolution by and for a people whose scars from the racially charged sixties were starting to heal. With a...
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Introduced to the world as something of a one-man funk band with a debut that had him writing, producing, and performing as well as playing all of the instruments, the bashful seventeen year-old from...
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The only people for me are the mad ones. Mad to live, mad to move, mad to be saved- with minds like book stacks and hearts like kick drums. No wristwatches, they measure time with high hats and squint...
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[This post contains video, click to play] While I find people leaving the TV on when I visit to be as socially appropriate as streaming pornography, I do see the advantages. Beyond basking in the...
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Dating back to the silent era when music was the only audio component to the cinema experience, save the din of depression era gossip, music has remained as important an attribute of film as butter has...
View ArticleSoul in the Seventies
Like the unfortunate phasing out of bench seats in automobiles or dueling to settle a grievance, our generation forgoing the slow dance strikes me less like a cultural evolution as it does a misguided...
View ArticleJazz Music For a New Beat Generation
The only people for me are the mad ones. Mad to live, mad to move, mad to be saved- with minds like book stacks and hearts like kick drums. No wristwatches, they measure time with high hats and squint...
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