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Ramones: 1-2-3-4 and then there were none.
Tommy Ramone died on Friday, but Tommy Erdelyi never even wanted to be a Ramone in the first place. When his friends Douglas Colvin, Jeffrey Hyman and John Cummings attempted to start a band,...
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A few thoughts about rock criticism
… written in the early 1990s under circumstances I can no longer recall (hence the references to Guns ‘N Roses and Ice-T — then cutting-edge but now Old Folks Music and barely familiar to anyone under...
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Charles Shaar Murray and Bex Marshall visit the Ozarks
… that’s Ozark Guitars, not the celebrated US mountain range after which the brand of exquisite acoustic guitars is named. Mi sistah-in-blues, the awesomely talented Bex Marshall, is a major user of...
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Key To The (Blues) Highway
Charles Shaar Murray does the Mississippi Clarksdale to Chicago Delta Blues pilgrimage. This piece was written in the summer of 2001 for Land Rover’s house mag and then remixed for The Guardian. This...
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Charles Shaar Murray (finally) re-reviews Bowie’s Low
Waiting for the gift of sound and (re)vision … Hey, so nobody’s perfect … not even me. (ESPECIALLY not me …) As any veteran of my rapidly-disappearing profession will confirm (especially after strong...
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Garden Rescue: secret vice or comfort food for the soul?
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun … Confession time: I have a Secret Vice. To be more accurate (and more truthful), I have several, but today let’s concentrate on just one: I am...
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