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  • by Jeff Gemmill
  • Posted on March 19, 2023March 19, 2023

Songs du Jour, 3/19/23

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  • by Jeff Gemmill
  • Posted on March 12, 2023

First Impressions: September November by the Long Ryders

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  • by Jeff Gemmill
  • Posted on March 11, 2023March 11, 2023

First Impressions: Aquarius Andromeda by the Three O’Clock

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  • by Jeff Gemmill
  • Posted on March 5, 2023March 5, 2023

The Essentials: One for the Road by the Kinks

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  • by Jeff Gemmill
  • Posted on March 4, 2023March 4, 2023

Songs du Jour, 3/4/23

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  • by Jeff Gemmill
  • Posted on February 26, 2023February 26, 2023

First Impressions: Islands in the Sky by Death Valley Girls

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Today’s NYA Times-Contrarian states the obvious. #neilyoung #neilyoungarchives #ticketmaster
Today’s companion for the road: #ShawnColvin’s Cover Girl. #classicalbum #folk #folkrock #singersongwriter
#PennStateProud (circa 1987).
No new #blogpost from me today. Instead, if you click on the link in my bio, you’ll be treated to a recap of #1992 that I put together in early 2017. It was a great year - Diane and I took our delayed honeymoon in California and, before and after those two weeks, saw a few memorable concerts (including #NeilYoung, #10000Maniacs and #ShawnColvin). I also share my Top 5 albums for ‘92, though I’d likely swap one or two of those for one or two of the runners-up I mention. (The pic, by the way, is me on Fisherman’s Wharf.) #memories #daysthatusedtobe
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Me on the front porch of what, by month’s end, will be our new home. #lookingforward #newhome
The pull of the past is strong, but the pull of the present is, too. Balancing the two is a work-in-progress, to an extent, especially as each year flips into the next and friends and loved ones exit stage left. That, more or less, is the fine line that the Long Ryders walk on their new album, September November, and they do it well. It’s a great album that mixes the band’s wry outlook and social commentaries with a newfound poignancy. Great album.
In the mid-1980s, when I wasn’t folking it up or embracing my inner-cowpunk, the Three O’Clock, Bangles and their Paisley Underground cohorts provided—in part—the soundtrack to my many halcyon days and nights. Their Arrive Without Travelling LP was and remains one of my favorite platters—as I wrote in my “essential” review of it, “It’s a true spacetime anomaly, simultaneously of its time and timeless, full of shimmering melodies and hooks galore.” Aquarius Andromeda, an odds-and-sods digital-only collection that they released last week, isn't quite that, but it's still a lot of fun. (I spotlight it on my blog today - link in bio.) #TheThreeOClock #paisleyunderground #OddsandSods #AlbumReview

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