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Jazz
5/29/2008
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of its ancestral memories. The same could be said for the poetry of jazz, built step by st …
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Theme - Cover Songs
5/28/2008
Quite often, when we abandon what is visible for the sake of what is uncertain, we do not get what we expected and sometimes lose what we had - an unfortunate enigmatic calamity. In a musical sense, yo …
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Pop
5/27/2008
The James Gang was a unit that began in the '60s in Cleveland, Ohio, and their second album Rides Again featured the Funks #48 and 49 found on this mix. After playing that album recently, I began to th …
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Reggae
5/25/2008
Years ago I traveled to Jamaica with a girlfriend and another couple, and we had our heads blown away by the music. It was just after Bob Marley returned to the country after his self-exile, and the is …
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Pop
5/24/2008
Men and women take delight in landscapes because the din of the modern, technological world that we inhabit has become the vacuum that nature abhors. Some of us - probably all of us on AOTM - find inne …
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Theme
5/19/2008
First of all, I want to give a hearty shout out to RetroJoe for his Playlist mixes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, not to mention the many other fine mixes he has posted through the years. Though …
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Mixed Genre
5/14/2008
Living out in the country, the record shops are getting further away, especially the good independent stores, and the Internet is close at hand. Gas isn't cheap and neither are CDs, but enough whining. …
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Mixed Genre
5/5/2008
Over the past week, I've spent some time filtering through old mixes from boxes that were still packed from a move back in August of last year. Some of these are actually on cassette tapes (remember th …
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Theme
4/26/2008
After commenting on one of her mixes, buglady was thoughtful enough to recommend via email a novel by Jorge Amado. As "Tereza Batista - Home From The Wars" is out of print, the book was not easy to fin …
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