Jane! Jane! Jane!
Your Ultimate Jane Playlist
As a young man just entering my 20s I fell for a time into the orbit of a Jane. It was then that I first noted the preponderance of songs …
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Jane! Jane! Jane!
I’ll Fly Away
9/11, psych meds and me
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Seen Magazine’s Lost Nineties Playlist
Mixtape from a Clinton-era zine
The latter half of the 1990s was a transitional time for the music industry. Production of vinyl records had petered out almost entirely and the long-popular cassette format was plummeting …
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The Party Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore
Murder and madness in the hot hot summer of 1989 (part 1 of 2)
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Proudfoot & Bird Radio
MC's finest jams from 1989-today
What you see above here is the Proudfoot & Bird Radio player, loaded up and ready to go with more than 50 songs written (and in a few cases co-written) …
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Cowboy Cookies International
From Oklahoma to Gifu, home cookin' is a universal love language
Several months ago I kicked off the Honk Journal Food & Drinks category with an article about family recipes, which included the recipe for my Okie grandmother’s legendary Cowboy Cookies. …
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Too Much Is Never Enough
MTV at 40: Generation X and the video music big bang
Forty years ago today, on August 1, 1981, an upstart television network made a rather wobbly launch. Marred by technical glitches, packed to the brim with marginal, almost random content …
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Where No Okie Has Gone Before
Byron Berline's musical odyssey took him around the world and beyond
On Father’s Day 2019, my two young sons and I visited the delightful Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine, Kansas, as we had numerous times before. This century-old public garden, a …
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Music for a Free-Range Summer
Post-pox jamz to rock you from solstice to equinox
So you lost a whole summer to COVID-19 and now you’re vaxxed, waxed and maxed to make up for lost time. You got your hair cut, bought a couple summer …
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Coming of Age on the Cherokee Strip
In first cars as in first loves, lemons abound
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