Month: September 2014
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Springsteen: Album By Album (The Book Party)
Join me and Rebecca Gates, Jim Brunberg, Casey Neill, and Sarah Gwen and Mark Orton on Oct. 12. It’ll be fun.
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Happy Birthday, Bruce
Last night, I was finishing Steve Almond’s jarring rant Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto, when I stopped at this: “Maybe D.H. Lawrence was right. Maybe the essential American soul is “hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.” Maybe he was. He probably was, and if he was, he still is. Today is Bruce Springsteen’s 65th birthday, and […]
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Down in a ‘Dead Man’s Town’
I got to know this guy working on Springsteen: Album By Album. Sort of. We didn’t meet. Rufus “Tee-Tot” Payne has been dead a long time. He grew up in New Orleans in the late 19th century and the nickname comes from the cocktail of tea and homemade whiskey he’d carry in a flask. I wish I’d met […]
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