(The first in a series of preview posts as we count down to the 2019 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN.) Back in the old days – way before the internet machine made hearing just about any recorded piece of music in the world as easy as finding a homemade porno of some celebrity and/or […]
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Forgive me readers, for I have sinned. The primary directive for bloggers who wish to be well attended: Keep your content fresh. Post frequently so that your legions of followers know they will always find something new every time they check your page. In this, I have failed. Mea maxim culpa. But I’m back, better […]
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Let’s give it another go, shall we? My last missive was, shall we say, a tad down in the mouth. Things could not possibly be so dire. As one critic would have it, it sounded as though my dog had died. Well, she did, in fact. The day before the election. And there is an enormous […]
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I woke up today feeling wretched and I didn’t even bother to drink too much last night. For the first time since 1972, I went to bed early on Election Night. The statewide results in Florida were too painful to bear, and the chirpy happy talk from the MSNBC/CNN yapping heads was doing nothing to […]
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Hey kids. Only 5 months since the last post. Mea culpa. I been busy with many things, not the least of them being a novel that is currently at around 50,000 words and may in fact be an unprecedented work of confounding genius. Or maybe a load of shite. YMMV Also, too, I got to […]
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I posted this on the Twitter machine last night and took a little bit of grief for it. De mortuis nil nisi bonum goes the ancient admonition – Of the dead, speak nothing but good – and it was suggested that my comment was disrespectful and in poor taste. On the other hand, I also got […]
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I don’t really know where to begin to talk about this year’s Word of South Festival. I could begin at the beginning, that moment when I had my photo taken with legendary Muscle Shoals bassist David Hood, creator of what is arguably the coolest bass part in the history of pop music. Go on and […]
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live” – Joan Didion “We tell each other stories in order to live together” – i2b People accuse the i2b team of elitist snobbery, of being blind and deaf to the kinds of entertainment that “real people” might enjoy. P’tah, saith the team: The i2b brow covers the full […]
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The i2b team of one continues their coverage of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. Please share widely. And if you are feeling generous, click that DONATE button over there so we can buy gas and go home. Day 4 began with some drama for the i2b team. We had hoped to be through […]
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The i2b team of one continues their coverage of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. Please share widely. And if you are feeling generous, click that DONATE button over the so we can bail out the photographer. Don’t ask. It’s a safe bet that Day 3 of the 2018 Big Ears Festival reached the […]
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