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Farther Along
The last time my brother gave me such an imperative toward buying a new album it was upon the release of U2’s Achtung Baby. I could write a post or two about the ripple effect of that purchase down to this very day twenty years later, but it’s the recent imperative regarding Josh Garrels’ Love & War & the Sea in Between that concerns me here. The difference in the first case was that of course I had heard of U2....
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Over the Rhine and Through the Woods
Perhaps it’s embarrassing of me to admit this here at one of the dedicated hubs of their overall fan base, but until I was a fellow faculty member two summers ago at the Glen West Workshop hosted by Image, I had never heard of Over the Rhine—the musical/marital duo of Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist. For those of you who, like me, have been kept in the dark by evil cosmic forces, leave this website....
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A Bluegrass Wake
My sister died on a day when I was in Nashville. She went to be home, and I was five hundred miles from home, and another two thousand miles from my sister. It wasn't supposed to be this way. A one-to-three-months-to-live death sentence wasn't supposed to only last two weeks, and vacations—taken in part as a respite from the grievous weight of caring for a dying loved one—weren't supposed to end with....
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Not Slant Enough
The cover of Jackson Browne’s new CD, Time the Conqueror, features a black and white photo of the singer looking out from reflective glasses, his beard mostly white, his cryptic half-smile lying in that no man’s land between smugness and self-mockery. Compare that....
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Performing Art
I’m told music, dance and theater are performing arts, distinguished from “plastic arts” in that the medium of expression is the (frequently augmented) human body moving in time, the realization inseparable from interpretation....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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