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All Fingers on Deck

Issue 89Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #89! I hope you emerged from the 4th (Independence Day, for our friends around the world) with all digits intact. By now, you've undoubtedly noticed some changes in the...

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The Sound Of Music, Redux

Issue 89MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

There’s something I’ve been thinking about for around 25 years; ever since I started working with Bill Bottrell, and he made me aware of how different my sound was. What that...

Fairchild, Part 5

Issue 89VINTAGE WHINE

We’ve spent a fair amount of time and pixels on the brand Fairchild (part 1 in issue #75, part 2 in issue #76, part 3 in issue #77, and a sidebar/part 4 in issue #82), but there...

What Is It To You?

Issue 89FEATURED

Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. – Salman Rushdie I’d rather play jazz, I hate rock and...

Django, Act 3

Issue 89MUSIC TO MY EARS

The Hot Club On a night in 1934 Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli found themselves playing for Louis Vola in a pedestrian dance band at the Hotel Claridge. During a...

Can An Atheist Love Gospel Music ?

Issue 89TWISTED SYSTEMS

Hmmmm…… If I weren’t a writer, always looking for interesting stories, this article would not have been written. Why? Because I wouldn’t have ruminated over the fact that, as an...

To Sleep. Perchance to Dream.

Issue 89QUIBBLES AND BITS

What do we do, as a society, when we are obliged to face uncomfortable realities that require us to make major changes to things we have grown to think of...

Stéphane Grappelli: Eight Great Tracks

Issue 89TRADING EIGHTS

Nobody would dispute that Stéphane Grappelli is one of the top jazz violinists in history. So it says a lot about jazz history that, during much of the 1940s and...

Been Down So Long, It Seems Like Up To Me

Issue 89THE AUDIO CYNIC

As a parent, I’m used to my references being met with blank stares or an overt “Huh??” from my children. But I know I’m getting old when more and more, I encounter...

Etta James

Issue 89OFF THE CHARTS

Born to a single teen mom and passed around foster care, Etta James did not come into this world with many advantages. Even the choir director at her church in...

Party

Issue 89MUSIC'AL NOTES

“This is S.I. Newhouse’s personal secretary, I would like to invite you and your wife to a party to celebrate the construction of his new apartment.” I almost hung up...