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Friday, October 14, 2016

My First Album: Who's Next

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purchase [ Who's Next ] What is an album? Do they still exist? If you are following SMM, you probably don't need a lesson about...

SONGS FROM MY 1ST ALBUM: L.A.WOMAN

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It's a tricky one this, as, of course, is honesty, weaving a devious path between credibility and risibility. Achieving both, no doubt. ...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

HARVEST/FALL: "Harvest Festival," XTC

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Click and listen: Harvest Festival [ Purchase Apple Venus ] When I was informed of the "Harvest" theme that was to take ...
Friday, October 7, 2016

Harvest/Fall Future Islands, Seasons (Waiting On You)

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Purchase: Seasons (Waiting On You) I think a lot of folks came to Future Islands via The Late Show with David Letterman. It...
Monday, October 3, 2016

Harvest/Fall: Old Man

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purchase [ Old Man ] Being of age 60+ (perhaps the fall of my life) and having worked for 40 years or more, it seems natural that I...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

HARVEST/FALL: HOPPING DOWN IN KENT (ALBION DANCE BAND)

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Somehow, following on from the John Barleycorn post, and maintaining a similarly bucolic theme, this was the only and obvious choice. Su...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Harvest/Fall: John Barleycorn

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purchase [Traffic: John Barleycorn ] If you go way back into the SMM archives, you can see several posts about John Barleycorn - the s...

Harvest/Fall: Homegrown Tomatoes

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Guy Clark : Homegrown Tomatoes [ purchase ] In our backyard, we have three raised beds, poorly built by me , and a couple of unraised ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Teach and Learn: I Learned The Hard Way

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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings : I Learned The Hard Way [ purchase the soundtrack to Miss Sharon Jones! ] Most of us would prefer to...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Teach and Learn: Supertramp

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purchase Supertramp [ The Logical Song ] purchase Supertramp  [ School ] Ah! Supertramp!  One of my mainstay musics in the 80s and 9...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Teach and Learn: Jethro Tull/Teacher

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purchase [ Jethro Tull version of Teacher ] purchase [ Victor Griffin's In-Graved ] Ian Anderson has said that Teacher is not ...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Teach and Learn: What Can We Learn?

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Cole Petrone : I Have A Dream Cole Petrone : See You Again [ purchase ] Just like his opener about New York City w...
Friday, September 9, 2016

The Number Nine/September: Brand New, 1996

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Purchase:  Brand New's Deja Entendu September is upon us and the Back-to-School commercials have been diluting our regularly sch...

THE NUMBER 9: THE SEARCHERS

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Yes, those Searchers, 12-string wielding pop group from Liverpool, who, following in the merseybeat jet stream of the Beatles, were 2nd band...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

The Number Nine: Hey Nineteen/Steely Dan

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purchase [ Hey Nineteen ] I have always liked Steely Dan. Becker and Fagan, whatever the critics say, have always hit the right spot ...
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