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    Sandra Smith



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    What Happens When a Band Learns its Name was an Obscure Racial Epithet? Meet Parsonsfield.
    Sandra Smith Posted On July 30, 2014


    For Poor Old Shine, it started with a song… a traditional prison work song of the American South, called “Ain’t No Cane on This Brazos.” It’s been interpreted by everyone from Dylan and the Band, to the Low Anthem, Lyle […]


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    Joan’s arc: In praise of the underappreciated Joan Osborne
    Sandra Smith Posted On January 16, 2014


    (Reprinted from the blog Modern Acoustic) I recently went to see a band called Trigger Hippy at a concert hall in Boston. As a band, they are not well known. In fact, the band members actually haven’t been a band […]


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    Furthur, more or less: Returning to the scene of the Dead 30 years later
    Sandra Smith Posted On July 20, 2013


    I went back with some misgivings – no Jerry Garcia will do that to even the most ardent of Deadheads. I’d seen the video clips, heard Bob Weir and Phil Lesh’s vocals on those Jerry songs we hold sacred. Was […]


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