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And, On Piano, Dick Nixon: Music and Anarchy
Posted on January 27, 2012 | 1 CommentWhen then-President Richard Nixon sat down at the piano on the stage of the Grand Old Opry in 1974, he was reinforcing a conservative, polemical wall of sound to help...
Untamable Melodies: Music’s Revolutionary Spirit
Posted on January 15, 2012 | 2 CommentsAlone in the walnut-paneled music room, his favorite of Fair Lane Mansion’s 56 rooms, automobile tycoon Henry Ford picks up one of his two Stradivarius violins. It is 1920 or...
Shake the Dust
Posted on October 13, 2011 | No CommentsSometimes beauty hides in the magic of a URL. The nearly indecipherable strings of letters and numbers that only make sense when fed into a machine.
Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs – Alone in This Together
Posted on October 9, 2011 | 4 CommentsIn my last review of Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs I promised a follow up about how their album would have a living room sound to it–meaning intimate and...
We Need a Little Light
Posted on September 13, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat interesting parallels I’m having this week with the stories I wrote ten years ago as the Slate Diarist not long after 9/11. There was a lot of talk in...
Willie Nelson, America’s Voice in the wake of 9-11
Posted on September 11, 2011 | No CommentsTen years later – here’s the third of my Slate.com diaries written in the wake of 9-11. I’m don’t have any vintage photos to post with this one because I’m...
The Fall to Earth
Posted on September 11, 2011 | No CommentsTen years later the hallucinogenic events of September 11, 2001, remain enigmatic and nightmare-like. There is no shared, uniform view because our experiences of that day are so disparate. There...
Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
Posted on September 10, 2011 | No CommentsIn the days before everyone's grandmother had a blog, the Slate Diaries were one of the internet's greatest outlets for interesting writing from widely disparate voices. I was asked by Slate to be a weekly diarist a month before 9/11, and when I scheduled my week for early October, I couldn't have anticipated that America and the world would be in such a soul-searching and somber mood.
I May End Up At The Poop Deck
Posted on September 9, 2011 | 1 CommentI recently made a trip to Galveston. I love some Texas Coast, and I had never visited the most notorious of Texas wharf towns. Each summer my daughter and I...
Happy Birthday, Annie Proulx!
Posted on August 23, 2011 | No CommentsPulitzer Prize winning author Annie Proulx (The Shipping News) was born on this day in 1935. Proulx’s first novel Postcards was published when Proulx was 58 years old. So if...