Spitball Army

I came across an old post (written four-plus years ago, so only old in a relative sense) in which I had constructed a musical playlist to mirror a trip through the South. I couldn’t even recall writing it. Perhaps that’s why I used the word ‘old.’ It followed an imagined road trip out of the […]

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Approximate playing time: 80 minutes.

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Guitarist, composer and musical archivist Ry Cooder’s upcoming Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down features some elegantly simple cover art that is one of my favorite album covers of the last few months.

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Approximate playing time: 78 minutes.

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Approximate playing time: 80 minutes.

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Approximate playing time: 78 minutes.

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Approximate playing time: 77 minutes.

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Birmingham Magazine’s online music column recently proposed a playlist that would take listeners on a journey through the South. In addition to posting their list, they opened up for reader submissions. I posted one…

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Today’s kernel of universal wisdom comes courtesy of Ry Cooder.

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This is a tape that reflected the pushmi-pullyu part of my brain that, at the time, couldn’t decide if it was into songwriters, oldies, classical or blues. That’s pretty representative of my brain all of the time.

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