In late 1984 I discovered punk and "college rock" through a friend at camp; from then on I was hooked. Not just on the music, but the camp thing as...
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When it comes to music-listening, like many, we have options: iPod, CD player, DVD player, phonograph, Tivoli radio, regular radio, satellite radio, Internet...
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The boyfriend at the time spent about half of 1987 just south of Knoxville, Tennessee, while I stayed behind in Middle Tennessee.  I used to go up there...
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I've written before about my ex-boyfriend's obsession for a time, back when we were living together and had first moved down to Memphis, with reggae and how...
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            When I was in the fourth grade one of my best friends was totally into Amy Grant.  I wasn't sure who this artisit was just yet.  My...
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Screenwriter's Blues is one of those songs that stays with you after your first listen, it leaves you wanting more. The first time I heard it on the radio I...
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Half the people in the world and some elsewhere had a copy of Tapestry. The other half of human kind didn't get one because some of us had more than our fair...
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Somehow, in the course of my rather extensive and self-propelled modern music education, I totally missed The Velvet Underground.Sure, I wasn't completely...
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The boyfriend at the time almost ruined reggae for me forever with yet another of his lengthy musical obsessions. At the time with him, it was reggae,...
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Mom and I went to Europe for my high school graduation present to each other and while music was a huge part of the success of the trip, this particular song...
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It was about 88 degrees, sun beating down on the cloth red seats of the burgundy Triumph TR6 convertible my uncle W owned and we were speeding along the...
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Have you ever known somebody who locks in on one band as the only worthwhile act in the history of the world?  My freshman roommate in college listened...
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