(I Barely) Remember the Alamo
A Cherokee Strip Club Adventure
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(I Barely) Remember the Alamo
Three of a Kind
McCartney III keeps the home-brew vibe alive
The Year of Our Lord 2020 will forever be remembered for its chaos, uncertainty and turmoil — but despite it all, there were still bright spots, glistening golden kernels sprinkled …
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Kool-Aid Kids: Summer of ’78
A Cherokee Strip Club Adventure
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The Grim Reaper’s 2020 Playlist
We lost a whole world of music
When I first set out to compile a playlist of musicians who passed in 2020, I knew it would be a bigger task than usual, given the number of COVID-related …
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Down the Ol’ Rabbit Hole
Headfirst into the memory labyrinth on Christmas morning
Rabbit holes are funny things. This morning, Christmas Day, 2020, I was goofing around on Facebook when I saw a post mentioning the ’70s song “Beautiful Sunday” by Daniel Boone. …
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Odd Jobs: Adult Bookstore Clerk
True tales from the overnight shift
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Eternally Elvis
Reconsidering the King of Rock & Roll at 85
Elvis Presley has now been dead longer than he lived, and in the years since his untimely passing, the cruelty of time and the whims of social change have reduced …
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Everybody Sings the Beatles
From 1963 to today, covering the Fabs has never gone out of style
Warning: This article is 3100 words long and I freely admit it just barely skims the surface of the subject matter. So don’t @ me about your favorite Beatles cover …
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The Overlooked Underbelly of Live Aid
Everybody remembers Queen, but what about Yu Rock Mission?
Thirty-five years ago today I called in sick to my part-time job at Long John Silver’s, cranked up my grandma’s Marantz stereo system to the max and plopped my 16-year-old …
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American Top 40 at 50
Casey Kasem's hit parade raised a generation on radio
Today is Independence Day, 2020, and it is fair to say that times in our fair nation are cuckoo-bananas. But the date is auspicious in that it marks the 50th …
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