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Issue 94
The Adventures of Jeff Beck: First Movement
Geoffrey Arnold Beck was a war baby, a term exclusively…
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Issue 106
Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part Four
In 1976 Steely Dan released The Royal Scam, their fifth…
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Issue 105
Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part Three
By accounts, in early 1967 Owsley “Bear” Stanley (click on…
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Issue 104
Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part Two
As reclusive and protective of his identity as Owsley “Bear”…
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Issue 103
Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part One
In this new three-part series, you and I will explore…
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Issue 100
The Gift
My dear wife Diana is one of those who begin…
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Issue 99
The Great Christmas Hymns
I was brought up Catholic because my mother was Irish…
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Issue 98
The Bonzo Dog Band and the House on Daleville Road
I discovered the weirdness of the Bonzo Dog Band in…
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Issue 97
The Adventures of Jeff Beck: The Finale
On March 9 and 10, 1981, Beck went on a…
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Issue 96
The Adventures of Jeff Beck: Third Movement
Sorting through the flotsam that is rock lore to figure…
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Issue 95
The Adventures of Jeff Beck: Second Movement
December 1965 found the Yardbirds recording an album in America…
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Issue 109
The Gear That Changed My Life – The Bass Series
I am going to explore some bass stuff for a…
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Issue 93
NRBQ
In 1966 two kids who were not being watched carefully…
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Issue 92
The Wildweeds
“I’m listening to WDRC BIG D in Hartford!” In 1967…
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Issue 91
Django, Act 5
On January 29, 1947, Django Reinhardt landed in New York.…
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Issue 90
Django, Act 4
In 1940 the Nazi war machine engulfed France and Paris…
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Issue 89
Django, Act 3
The Hot Club On a night in 1934 Django Reinhardt…
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Issue 87
Django, Act 2
[Act 1 of the Django Reinhardt story appeared in Copper…
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Issue 86
Django, Act 1
January, 1910, on a cold evening in Liberchies, Belgium a…
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Issue 84
Listless
Last Christmas I was up late with my boys drinking…
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Issue 83
Steppenwolf
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench,…
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Issue 81
Sean Costello
At times in everyone’s life someone comes along that thoroughly…
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Issue 126
Those Christmas Movies
I don’t live my life by many rules. Basically, I…
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Issue 152
Saved By the Light
It’s late and dad has his slippers and pipe Mom’s…
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Issue 152
The Sounds of Christmas: Batteries Not Included, Redux
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Issue 151
Rock and Roll – Missing In Action?
My wife Diana and I were in the European Café…
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Issue 148
Tom Waits – Our Beat Storyteller, Part Three
I must apologize to my valiant readers (all four of…
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Issue 142
Tom Waits: Our Beat Storyteller, Part Two
In the late 1960s Tom Waits decided he wanted a…
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Issue 139
Tom Waits – Our Beat Storyteller, Part One
He was born when lightning struck a distillery near Pomona,…
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Issue 135
The Wrecking Crew: The Legends Behind the Hits
In 1966 Sonny and Cher were recording a song with…
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Issue 132
John Mayall Part Two – The Turning Point
As mentioned in a previous column (Issue 130), John Mayall…
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Issue 131
Chick Corea Returns to Forever
Armando Anthony Corea, known to the world as “Chick,” passed…
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John Mayall: British Blues Pioneer
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John Prine
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Issue 123
Frank Zappa – The King of Freaky’s New Movie
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Giraffes and Whipped Cream Return: Frank Zappa
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Issue 120
Home for the Pandemic
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Issue 118
The Music Lesson
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Issue 116
Travis Wammack – Memphis Royalty
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Issue 114
Leland Sklar: The Bearded One
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Issue 112
Little Richard: The Architect of Rock and Roll
This incredible story is about one of the most influential…
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Issue 111
John Prine – In Spite of Himself
I did a Copper piece on John Prine a year…
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Issue 110
Bassic Necessity
In his Issue 108 column Dan Schwartz related that Paul…
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Blue Christmas
My dear wife Diana is one of those that starts…
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Issue 37
Hey! Hey! It’s the Monkees!
In 1966 I was 12 and the world was 9.…
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Issue 36
We’re All Bozos On This Bus
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Issue 35
Southern Rock and The Allman Brothers: The ReRebirth of the Blues
In March 1971 the Allman Brothers started a three day…
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Issue 32
Toon Town!
I think was in my teens before I realized that…
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Issue 31
Johnny B. Goode:
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The car went over a heave in the road and…
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Issue 30
Bebop Deluxe
Mankind astounds with creativity, stupidity, ingenuity, and levity. The same…
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Issue 29
James Cotton:
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We lost James Cotton on Thursday, March 16, 81 years…
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Issue 27
You Got to Funkifize
I started to write a column about Tower of Power,…
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Issue 26
Steely Dan: Do It Again
No story about the Dan can be told without raising…
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Sounds of 2016: Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Cubs Win!
The turning of a year is a minor celestial accident.…
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Issue 38
Deep Purple—In Rock
Ok. This is how shit happens. In 1967 Chris Curtis,…
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Issue 22
The Sounds of Christmas: Batteries Not Included
I grew up on Ash Drive in suburban Connecticut. When…
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Issue 21
Roamin’ in the Gloamin’: John Hammond
John Hammond was born into wealth in 1910 to John…
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Growin’ Up Together: Stevie Wonder
I remember vividly the first time I heard ‘Sir Duke’…
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Issue 19
Bluegrass In the Dark: Doc Watson
I have to tell you, blind musicians fascinate me. Not…
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Issue 18
Giraffes and Whipped Cream: Frank Zappa
Two of my kids have a cat with decidedly uncatlike…
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Felix Pappalardi, Nantucket Sleigh Ride
A band named Mountain, that in its most potent form…
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Swing, Swing, Swing
I was about 15 and home sick for the day.…
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Swang!
“The Texas Playboys are on the air!” With two quick…
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Jerry Garcia
If you were born on August 9, 1995, you’re turning…
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Jaco
When I started out playing bass, like all novices I…
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The Blues: Willie (who was also blind) Johnson
Out of one the darkest periods of our history came…
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Arthur “Another Blind Guy” Blake
I’m not going to apologize for that. Think about it.…
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Christmas and Us
When I was a kid, on Christmas Eve I heard…
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Bessie Smith Part 2
I am always interested in transitory events whether they be…
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Issue 72
Bessie Smith Part 1
The Lord was walking through the Garden. He was knitting…
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Issue 71
And The Beat Goes On
I have a recurring dream. I’m standing backstage at a…
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Hoagy Carmichael, Part 2
Back at IU Hoagy was going to class and stopped…
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Issue 58
Hoagy Carmichael, Part 1
Hoagland Carmichael The sound of the neighbor’s rotary mower preceded…
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Issue 55
Charlie Patton: Father of the Delta Blues
It’s June 1929. A young man in his early thirties…
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Rock This Town: Rockabilly, Part 2
During the 1960’s rockabilly was mainly heard on the nostalgia…
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Move It On Over: Rockabilly, Part 1
Dave turned onto 13th Ave that runs west out of…
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John Hartford
One day about twenty-five years from now, When we’ve all…
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Issue 51
Nat King Cole: For Sentimental Reasons
In 1926 Nathaniel Adams Cole was 7 years old and…
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Issue 50
The River Runs Through It: Rick Hall
Trains and rivers run through America like blood brooding through…
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What If Christmas Sucks?
Old Joke. There are 10 kinds of people in the…
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Issue 47
The Band, Part 2: From Dylan to The Last Waltz
There were many remarkable moments in the history of The…
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Issue 46
The Band, Part 1:
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First we need to talk about Ronnie Hawkins. The Hawk…
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Issue 44
Satchmo
The Roaring 20’s changed life in America in radical ways. …
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Issue 42
Dippermouth
January 1, 1901 was a Tuesday in steamy New Orleans. …
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Issue 40
Jethro Tull
Beggar’s Farm
Jethro Tull was a intriguing lawyer and agriculturist whose life…
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Syd Barrett: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Yer not! Am too! But we just stopped. Yeah, that…
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