Showing posts with label Other Groups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Other Groups. Show all posts
Friday, January 31, 2014

In Honor Of Pete Seeger: "Guantanamera"

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The best picture of Pete Seeger is any one like this one: a tall, spare figure - so tall and so spare that his famous 25-fret long-necked...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

John Denver: "Leaving, On A Jet Plane"

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December 31st would have been John Denver's 70th birthday had he lived, and that fact leads me rather more toward contemplation than t...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

JFK 50 Years Later: Songs Of November 22, 1963

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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly, than ever before. And with each...
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Sunday, October 13, 2013

John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads"

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The death of John Denver sixteen years ago yesterday was a jolting moment for many people of my generation, a quiet reminder that all thing...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

"Railroad Bill"

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One of the darker aspects of American culture as it has evolved to this point has been our collective penchant to make folk heroes out of...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

All Over This Land - "If I Had A Hammer" & The March On Washington

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One of the elements of the August 28, 1963 March On Washington that is getting a fair amount of attention today on the 50th anniversary of...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

RFK & The Poetry Of Memory: John Stewart's "Dreamers On The Rise"

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Today, June 6th , is the 45th anniversary of the death of Robert Kennedy, shot down here in Los Angeles in the early morning hours of June 5...
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