June 4, 2009
After yesterday’s explosion of activity, I need to bring it down a little and get back to basics, which today feels like it could only mean Jimmie Rodgers or Hank Williams.
I’m chagrined to say neither fella has had a Vegetable yet, so let me attend to that right now.
Hey, everybody knows where Hank stands in [...]
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May 21, 2009
Well, the Decemberists pretty much took the place apart last night.
With the help of “The Diamonds” (Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark and My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden) and a passel of on-the-spot instrument tech and roadies, they dropped the Hazards Of Love album front-to-back on all 2800 of us over there at Oakland’s new-again and astoundingly [...]
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