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Bacharach to Basics
The King of Pop Sophistication is dead — long live the King!

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

Burt Freeman Bacharach, a towering figure of American song, has passed at the age of 94. What can be said of the man that hasn’t already been codified in legend …

Bacharach to Basics
The King of Pop Sophistication is dead — long live the King!
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Eyelands in the Stream / Music / Social Studies

Knowledge is Power!
Schoolhouse Rock! used the power of music to teach Generation X

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

Americans now in their 50s grew up in a time of radical innovation at the intersection of public education and mass media. In the late 1960s, citizen groups such as …

Knowledge is Power!
Schoolhouse Rock! used the power of music to teach Generation X
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In Memoriam 2022
An epic playlist of the recently departed

December 31, 2022January 7, 2023 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

Well, another year is just about in the can, and as usual, there is a long list of talented folks who have left us over the past twelve months. For …

In Memoriam 2022
An epic playlist of the recently departed
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Eyelands in the Stream / Music

Museum Pieces
Gen X and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

In modern-day America, the hallmarks of middle age include, among many other signifiers, opening your mailbox to find that first mailer from AARP, noticing antique tags on cars that were …

Museum Pieces
Gen X and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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Music / Vintage MC

Secret Meetings: An Alternative Playlist
A vintage compilation recaps the college rock days 1981-91

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

In 2003 I was hired as managing editor of a startup free weekly paper in Wichita. F5 Weekly (RIP) covered music, movies, art, politics, etc., and the whole of the …

Secret Meetings: An Alternative Playlist
A vintage compilation recaps the college rock days 1981-91
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Music

Thirty Songs in Memory of Mo Ostin
The music exec's music exec shuffles off at 95

August 2, 2022August 2, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

Music heads everywhere were stunned and saddened this week to hear of the passing of industry icon Mo Ostin, a man who somehow became one of the most successful music …

Thirty Songs in Memory of Mo Ostin
The music exec's music exec shuffles off at 95
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The Ballad of C.W. McCall
How a bread commercial stoked the trucker chic revolution of the 1970s

April 2, 2022December 29, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

I grew up in the ’70s on the Cherokee Strip, right on the Kansas side of the Oklahoma border, and our hometown had a pork processing plant that employed many …

The Ballad of C.W. McCall
How a bread commercial stoked the trucker chic revolution of the 1970s
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Hooray for Flowers!
Choice springtime jams for the vernal equinox

March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - 2 Comments.

Today is the first day of spring, and boy, is the Honk home office happy about it. In honor of the season of rebirth, renewal and fresh starts, here is …

Hooray for Flowers!
Choice springtime jams for the vernal equinox
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Embrace the Ides of March
The official March 15 birthday playlist

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

A surprising range of musicians across a broad spectrum of styles and genres share one quirky trait: Being born on March 15. In honor of the many jams produced by …

Embrace the Ides of March
The official March 15 birthday playlist
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That’s How I Got to Memphis
The story of "The Storyteller" Tom T. Hall

January 23, 2022January 24, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

When I was a kid growing up on the Cherokee Strip in the 1970s, the air was filled with country music, played and sung by a cast of colorful characters …

That’s How I Got to Memphis
The story of "The Storyteller" Tom T. Hall
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Michael Carmody - Coming of Age on the Cherokee Strip

You are kind. Part of telling this is about helping me process it, the other part is in hoping it…

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I love your writing. I can just picture your driving that car and the engine falling almost out. I am…

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It's a wild ride, for sure!

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I missed this particular article the first time around, read it this morning, and watched the movie after that. It…

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