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Well, here we are at the end of another exhausting year of disease, death, social upheaval, creeping fascism, across-the-board uncertainty and sundry shades of dread. As seems to have become …
Reelin’ in the Years
This article is dedicated to the lonesome misfits of Generation X. Names of people and some places have been changed for the usual reasons. In 1983 I was an obnoxious …
This Is Where We Walked
The cowbell has been with us for something like 5,000 years now, from humble beginnings in Africa, where early herdsmen hung small bells made from pottery around the necks of …
All’s Well That Cowbells
On October 6, 2021, the music fans of Wichita, Kansas were crushed to hear of the passing of local legend Rudy Love. But the fact that so comparatively few beyond …
Rudy Love: This Song Is for You
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 …
Jane! Jane! Jane!
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 …
Seen Magazine’s Lost Nineties Playlist
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 …
Too Much Is Never Enough
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 …
Where No Okie Has Gone Before
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 …
Music for a Free-Range Summer
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Coming of Age on the Cherokee Strip