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Life's Thumbs In Our Wet Clay
Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell's 'Amelia' + Sticky Confusion + Touching Darkness and Living
Once Again Falling Apart
Jackson Frank: 'Blues Run The Game' + Burning Out + Riding The Train + Sewing a Wide, Scratchy Quilt
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Michael Rance
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Even Though I Wasn't Watching Twin Peaks, I Was Basically Living There
Julee Cruise: 'Falling' + Bucktown, Pennsylvania + Swiping tapes + Glimpses of Lynch
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PartTimeLady
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Onward!
Do Make Say Think: 'The Universe!' + Philly (2006) + Abu Dhabi to Japan (2010) + New Year's (2024 -> 2025)
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Peter C. Baker
I Didn't Know What To Say
Sharon Van Etten: ‘Seventeen’ + Baby Stuff (aka No-Baby Stuff) + Appointment After Appointment + Rocking Out (In The Car, Alone)
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Annie Bostrom
If'n You Don't Know By Now
Bob Dylan: 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right' + Breakups + Old friends + Jewish grandmas
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Howard Axelrod
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Life Exploding in Every Direction
Sam Cooke: 'Blowin in the Wind' (Live at the Copacabana) + Swagger + Freedom + The End of One Movie + The Start of Another
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Peter C. Baker
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Somewhere Inside I Wanted To Smile Again
The Beatles: 'Dear Prudence' + Silence, secrets, and lies + The desire to shrink + The desire to live
Getting At The Shape Of Loneliness
Neil Young: 'Hey Hey, My My' + Going nowhere + Becoming something
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Sam Kahn
Conjured and Dismissed
Fiction (!) from Garth Greenwell. John Taverner: 'Westron Wynde Mass' + Staff/patient bonding in hospital + That sense only non-sense can convey
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Time Travel Is Painful
Oasis: 'Wonderwall' + Cairo to Hull (and back again) + Pangalactic Gargleblasters (on ice)
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Youssef Rakha
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Silhouettes, So Far And Close
The Clientele: 'I Dreamed of You, Maria' + The haze of early parenting + The old becoming new + The new becoming old + Steamrollers + Meat-grinders
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Peter C. Baker
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