Another mysterious album in the collection gifted to me by my artist and musician friend Curtis.Here’s a songwriter that I would have heard about, whose name I would have recognized as a person often cited as a significant figure, whosesongs I had heard performed by otherartists, but whose records had completely escaped me. It’s 1969.Continue reading “#819: N is for Nyro, Laura”
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#651: C is for Cooper, Alice
I Shock rocker Alice Coopereach tour would devise someway to execute himself at the end of the show. One tour, he hung himself, in anotherhe chopped his head offwith a guillotine, and the timeI saw him on the From The Inside tour, he put himselfin an electric chair. A rockstar with 9 lives, by theContinue reading “#651: C is for Cooper, Alice”
Thank You, Neil
Somewhat unusually, I think, because it wasn’t a huge hit, the first album I heard from Rush was the debut, the only Rush record without a Neil Peart on the drums. My brother had it, and during those days, as young as I was, my brothers’ and my sister’s records just seemed to BE there.Continue reading “Thank You, Neil”
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