Like a ship out in the night...
In the days and weeks following 9/11, pronouncements over how our lives had been permanently altered flowed upstream and down. Irony was declared dead (sayonara David Letterman). Sensitivity had its i's double-dotted, leading Clear Channel Communications to order its more than 1,000 radio outlets not to play dozens of songs it deemed tasteless in this context (like th...
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In the year just passing I lost a dream long held so close that never – ever – did I confess it in public, for I have always wanted a magazine of my own. The arc of my career, such as it has been (stretching back to my junior high school typewritten scandal sheet, The Streaker's Digest), would have made it easy enough to guess at my aim, but still, it seemed so unlike...
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In case you missed these...
Photo by Denny Renshaw
As we close out 2008, here's a guide to some of the best artists you might have missed this year. (Warning! May contain a higher-than-usual number of sensitive singer-songwriters. Just so you know.) BEN SOLLEE: A Louisville-based singer-songwriter-cellist and member of Abigail Washburn's Sparrow Quartet, Sollee frequently gets compared to Ray LaMontagne, if LaMontagne...
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