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David Bazan, Could You Play This Week’s Offering Song?
David Bazan, ex-frontman for Pedro the Lion and current solo artist, has the distinction of being the only living songwriter whose cumulative discography charts, with frequent bleak hilarity, the slow and agonizing loss of faith in Jesus. Christians have never known what to make of Bazan, who has written lyrics ranging from “You know I want to be like Jesus” (“Lullaby”) to “What a Cruel God We’ve Got” (“Cold Beer and Cigarettes”).
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The First Pitch
I can recall the first time that I heard ‘classical’ music. My mother had just retrieved the long disabled record player back from the repair shop and put on an LP to test it out. For a kid of seven or eight, the novelty of the thing must have brought me into the room to see how this contraption worked. On the A side of the record was a recording of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Oscar Levant as the soloist.
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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