Let’s face it – The stress of these super-close World Series games is a lot to handle this week. Wouldn’t it feel good to get out on Friday night for some good, hard, live rock music? If I still lived in Missouri, I’d be at Off Broadway on Friday night to see Kentucky Knife Fight.
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I love music. Although I was never a fan of history classes in general, music history quickly became my favorite subject in music school. I would dig into music history papers with a fervor most college students reserved for frat parties or first loves. Music is, without question, my first love. I loved music before I loved boys. I loved music before I had a best girl friend. I loved music before I came to terms with God. There nothing that comes closer to reflecting the depths of me than certain songs, albums, and artists. I grew up on my older brother’s musical tastes. Those tastes did not, by any means, include country music. So much so that when I purchased a Garth Brooks album as a pre-teen, he ensured that it disappeared, undoubtedly to the depths of the fire pit that we used to burn our trash. (We’re country [...] In the days before the internet, when a small town girl was forced to drive 70 miles to buy any album that wasn’t mainstream, Vintage Vinyl was where I went. I spent most of my day yesterday in Soulard, a neighborhood just east of I-55 and south of downtown, St. Louis. The area reminds me of a mix between Brooklyn and New Orleans, with red brick, two- and three-story rowhouses along red brick sidewalks. Disclosure: My best friend works for one of the artists on this album, so my opinion is probably influenced by her talking this album up, pre-release. Last night, I downloaded “Dark Was the Night”, the newly released album produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner from one of my favorite bands, The National, as an AIDS and [...] Nothing will fry insired writing or kill the high found in watching a Panamanian drum corps rehearse in the park or keep new drumsticks in their packaging unused as well as television will. |
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