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And, On Piano, Dick Nixon: Music and Anarchy
Posted on January 27, 2012 | 2 CommentsWhen 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... -
Spotify Killed the Record Store
Posted on August 6, 2011 | No CommentsI hate to say it, but I think the arrival of Spotify in the U.S. signals the death knell for indie record stores. For less than 10 bucks a month,... -
Interview with Oscar Nominated Screenwriter/Director Oren Moverman
Posted on August 24, 2010 | 4 CommentsScreenwriter Oren Moverman made his directorial debut with THE MESSENGER (2009), a film about an injured Iraq War veteran who returns home to find he has been assigned... -
Evangeline, the Oil Spill and Highway 61
Posted on June 14, 2010 | 5 CommentsI was 18, skinny, out of money and in New Orleans for the first time after some Appalachian adventures and a visit to Nixon’s D.C. I faked a cocky walk... -
When First Unto This Country
Posted on March 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsYou could see it coming in the eyes of Walker Evans’ Depression-era tenant farmer, Allie Mae Burroughs, and it’ll make you cry, that razor’s edge of a sad smile about... -
Dear Kinky
Posted on October 9, 2009 | 7 CommentsLate one night back in the late fall of ‘74, I was sitting with our friend Bill Barvin in the dark and quiet dining room of Austin’s Pearl Street student... -
What Then is to be Seen in America?
Posted on August 10, 2008 | No CommentsIt’s late afternoon, at a window booth in a small diner in Rutherford, New Jersey. Around 1961 or ’62. An older man with short white hair that is still somehow...