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Results for Easy Street
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by Bob Hill•June 25, 2008•
In A Freewheelin’ Time Rotolo uses her relationship with Dylan as the focal point for everything else happening around them. And in that sense Bob Dylan plays a central role. But—to her credit—Rotolo never exploits the relationship for her own purpose. And she doesn’t waste entire chapters obsessing over Dylan’s every whim. She describes him as someone who was immensely talented, and often difficult.
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by C! Team•June 25, 2008•
There's something about summer reading lists. They almost always contain must-reads, but they are also supposed to contain page-turners... books that, while not being the most challenging literary content you've feasted your eyes on, are highly entertaining without being too heavy on the thinking. It's summer for crissakes, and that means taking a standard break from life.
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by James Greene, Jr.•June 11, 2008•
The Queers came together at the tail end of that period, forming in scenic Portsmouth, NH. King, the band’s original singer/guitarist, and his pals adopted the dark themes that hung over the earliest ‘Mones material and twisted them into absolutely sick, speedy hardcore blasts. The Ramones wanted to sniff glue; the Queers announced “We’d Have a Riot Doing Heroin.” The Ramones wanted to whack kids
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by Greg Gaston•June 4, 2008•
With the release of Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, the Truckers have yet again dealt with internal turmoil and regrouped to record this sprawling epic. Most bands are lucky to have one gifted songwriter on board, but these guys have three strong contributors. They wrote and recorded over 50 songs for Creation’s Dark, eventually whittling them down
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by Greg Gaston•May 28, 2008•
Of course, Paul Simon has just a bit of touch as a lyric writer/poet himself. It’s one of his gifts, and plenty of examples underline that through every stage of his long career. But unlike Beam, his subject matter more often deals with urban alienation—alone and forsaken in the big city. Cool jazz sophistication, sometimes to a fault. His persona in song is often divorced, or at least entangled, in love’s lonely lessons. That’s why Graceland feels
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