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    Frances Figart



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    Howe Gelb on Vic Chesnutt, Rainer Ptacek, and other collaborations
    Frances Figart Posted On December 23, 2011


    “i like the way my sentences flow before you wrangled them.” This is the most memorable sentence Howe Gelb wrote to me during the process of interviewing him via e-mail in September 2011. And no, the lower case “i” in […]


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    Howe Gelb remembers Sept. 11 in “NYC of Time”
    Frances Figart Posted On September 11, 2011


    “NYC of Time,” the second track on Giant Sand’s 2004 offering, Is All Over the Map, pays homage to the resilience of New York City and delivers a deeply felt encouraging word to all who were affected by the devastation […]


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    Mike Coykendall: The Artist Interview
    Frances Figart Posted On September 1, 2011


    It’s January 24, 2011, and I’m driving alone somewhere in Indiana, listening to an Eels CD a friend burned for me. Suddenly a song comes on that demands my full attention and compels me to do something I reserve for […]


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