Category: Music
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5. Painting it Black
News last fall that Vancouver would be the only Canadian venue for the 2024 Rolling Stores tour was rather like hearing around the same time, about the upcoming eclipse of the sun. Both events seemed like last-in-a-lifetime opportunities. I am not a devoted Stones fan and only the rarest attendee of concerts. But I was…
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I. Soundtracks (con’d)
Like many Canadians of my generation, I became a devotee of Saint Leonard from the first hearing ‘Songs of Leonard Cohen.’ Through the mid-1970s, I eagerly awaited the release of each of his albums. I was never disappointed in his music until ‘Death of a Ladies Man’ (1977). The excuse that the nearly unlistenable record…
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I. Soundtracks (intro.)
What could be more joyous than the smell of honeysuckle and sour mash whiskey along with sinful fornication on the bank of the baptizin’ creek? -‘Highlights of a love-hate affair’
Coprolites in Amber (etc.) 