A Stranger in Nashville, Struggling to Be Heard

NY Times piece about "Crazy: The Demo Sessions" by Willie Nelson.
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"Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony"

An extraordinary new documentary traces the South African freedom struggle through its joyous, defiant music.

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Go Johnny Go Go Go!

Sweet Tunes, Fast Beats and a Hard Edge. Chuck Berry, musician, composer and singer, is one of rock 'n' roll's most influential and enigmatic figures. By Bernard Weinraub. [New York Times: Arts]
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Music essays you can dance to

Songbook by Nick Hornby

Like Hornby's essays, the best writing about music shouldn't just make a reader want to play a song immediately, which can be tricky with "Songbook" as the CD's only track list appears on the surface of the disc itself. The best music writing should linger like an unshakable tune, haunting readers even years later, after too many hours between headphones have long since deafened us to the actual notes. (SFGate)

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Soul survivor

Howard Tate is a man on a mission. Actually, two missions. The first is to bring back the glories of American soul music — the kind that flowered in the ’60s and early ’70s, when African-American singers lit dynamite with their falsetto cries, heart-pounding shouts, and up-from-the-gut testifying. (Boston Phoenix)

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