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Of Thee We Sing | RealClearBooks
Ken Emerson, Wall Street Journal July 4, 2019 A Pulitzer prize-winning biographer, a Grammy Award-winning country-music star, lavish illustrations on glossy, coated stock: It all makes for such an impressive package that the contents of “Songs of America,” though fitfully compelling, are somewhat disappointing.
THANK HEAVEN FOR DANNY
Setting: Heaven's gate, decades from now. St. Peter clutches a clipboard and nervously checks his watch. A crowd of dignitaries and a group of cherubic cheerleaders wearing white sweaters emblazoned with the letter A are also on hand. Two older men wearing varsity sweaters stand patiently at St. Peter's side. St. Peter calls for quiet. The sound of a basketball being dribbled off in the distance is heard.
They Wrote The Songs That Made The Whole World Sing
Reading and reviewing music books often leads to a chain reaction – a brief mention about someone or thing leads to an Internet search and bam, I find myself downloading yet another piece of nonfiction to satisfy my curiosity. And that’s how I went from reading the latest Monkees work to the 11-year-old Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era.
Rock: Dire Straits, New English Group (Published 1979)
Archives|Rock: Dire Straits, New English Group March 5, 1979 Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from March 5, 1979, Section C, Page 12Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
Greetings From Asbury Park, Bruce Springsteen’s uproarious debut album, sounded like “Subterranean Homesick Blues” played at 78, a typical five-minute track bursting with more words than this review. Most of it didn’t make much sense, but that was the point. Springsteen was rhyming and wailing for the sheer fun of it, and his manic exuberance more than canceled out his debts to Dylan, Van Morrison and the Band. The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle takes itself more seriously.
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