Archive for April, 2009
oh girl, I’d be so sorry if you gave me a root canal: the chi-lites
Others have pointed to more obviously dramatic instances of ‘music-changed-my-life-and-made-me-see-the-light,’ the most common type of which would be where the person, despondent, possibly suicidal, hears Huey Lewis and the News and realizes it’s time to pull it all together and go on. William S. Burroughs claimed, in Junky, that he kicked a heroin habit with [...]
Read More..>>suspended in our masquerade: bruce springsteen & the e st. band, frank erwin center, austin, texas
To see Bruce Springsteen - who will turn 60 this year - live in concert is to call into question the intensity of your life: what have you been doing? Are you committed to it? Are you so committed to it that you’ll push yourself and your colleagues to the breaking point every night for [...]
Read More..>>there is no methadone for the blues
White blues guitar blowhards are really not in fashion these days - see George Thorogood - so it seems especially tricky that Austin decided to tie its identity so closely to Stevie Ray Vaughan. For reasons having something to do with music, something to do with sales, and something to do with aviation mishaps, we [...]
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