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Townes Van Zandt's "Waiting Around to Die"--A Dance with Death
Townes Van Zandt is the anti-John Denver. Both countrified folky types came of age around the same time–the early 70’s–in a wave of singer-songwriters…
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In the Mouth a Desert: Pavement and the Id
Pavement’s lyrics can lean to the incomprehensibly silly and/or juvenile–as a result you shouldn’t be blamed for viewing Pavement as mostly a band about…
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Tricky's Christiansands--Master Your Language
Thanks for reading The Feels ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (aka Tricky) is a figure…
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Hopeless Hope: Alex G's Devastating Portrait of the Fentanyl Crisis
Alex G (Sandy) is a true throwback. All grit and nose to the music grindstone, he keeps churning out songs and albums, year after year. Flying under the…
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Infinity Repeating: Daft Punk, Nietzsche and the Loop of Life
I’m not one to bow down to an artist or see them as some kind of invisible force of nature. This is applicable to John Lee Hooker, the Beatles, the…
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Yo La Tengo's Cherry Chapstick: Male Suburban Doldrums
Yo La Tengo Is “Cherry Chapstick” the funniest serious-sounding song ever? Or is it a song sadly bemoaning lack of skills in the dating department…
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Unsuccessful Blues, the Consolation of Lightnin' Hopkins
“Unsuccessful Blues” Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1949 To state the obvious, one facet of the blues is that it provides consolation for failure and rotten luck…
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