So far, I’ve counted six cats that live around here and frequent my porch. When I locked myself out of my house a couple weeks ago, a couple of them were ever so helpful, sitting in my lap while I […]
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Skool’s back in session, so my Sundays are now all about prep. I spent much of today re-designing the parts of my pop music history course that might have gone into general circulation, in order to prevent cheating. Sometimes I […]
Some might argue that folk – that 1960s folk revival kind of folk – is dying. Folk festivals are hiring big mainstream acts; kids aren’t interested in pure forms of genres anymore, it’s all about fusion; what’s the point of […]
I clearly remember having lunch one day in 2004 or 2005 with my good friend and my advisor, both of them in their late-40s, with (or getting) PhDs in music, former musicians; the things that qualify someone as a “music […]
Marty Robbins has been haunting me my whole life. I only figured this out last week. A glimmer of that realization started a couple weeks ago, when I returned to my parents’ place staggering under a load of books and […]
“Blurred Lines” is a song that’s causing some problems. Let’s get the video out of the way first (warning, there are some missing clothes): My friend wrote to me last week, asking if I had seen it. “It makes me […]
“Holeee, you’re a music snob,” said my brother when he met me in the beer gardens Friday night at the Calgary Folk Festival. Taking my five minutes spent on his tarp to hear a Bahamas song before I went to […]
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