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Thursday, May 18, 2006

YouTube for the Day
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- As yet, there isn't much hippie-redneck folk/country footage to watch on YouTube -- nothing... posted by Michael at May 18, 2006 | perma-link | (5) comments

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Time Passes
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- How time passes, vol. 639: Toni Basil, who sang the bouncy-cute pop song "Hey,... posted by Michael at May 17, 2006 | perma-link | (5) comments

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Early Rock at YouTube
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- Thanks to Lexington Green and others, who recently alerted me to the fact that... posted by Michael at May 14, 2006 | perma-link | (11) comments

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Hooked on a Feeling
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- Best rock video ever? Best, Michael... posted by Michael at April 22, 2006 | perma-link | (13) comments

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Pop Music Clueless
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- The Fianc�e got annoyed when I mentioned that I never listen to Top-40 music... posted by Donald at April 18, 2006 | perma-link | (30) comments

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Buck Owens
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I was sorry to learn that the country-western giant Buck Owens died the other... posted by Michael at March 26, 2006 | perma-link | (11) comments

Friday, March 24, 2006

Music Tips
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- WhiskyPrajer, Cowtown Pattie and DarkoV have been listing some of their favorite tear-jerkin' songs.... posted by Michael at March 24, 2006 | perma-link | (5) comments

Monday, March 20, 2006

Salingaros on the Brahms Cello Sonatas
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I was pleased to hear the other day from our friend, the mathematician and... posted by Michael at March 20, 2006 | perma-link | (0) comments

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Surroundsound Blues
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- The Wife and I have been working our way through the Joss Whedon sci-fi/Western... posted by Michael at January 31, 2006 | perma-link | (15) comments

Friday, January 13, 2006

Townes Van Zandt
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- The price we pay for art? Or what a lot of hard living will... posted by Michael at January 13, 2006 | perma-link | (18) comments

Friday, December 30, 2005

Music Category
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- It had been nagging at me for a while that we had no Music... posted by Michael at December 30, 2005 | perma-link | (0) comments

Saturday, December 17, 2005

To iTunes, or Not to iTunes
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- Wayne Bremser wonders if the iTuning of all recordings will have a good or... posted by Michael at December 17, 2005 | perma-link | (9) comments

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Holiday Suggestions
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- * There aren't many musicians more purely Modernist -- as in difficult and austere... posted by Michael at December 14, 2005 | perma-link | (8) comments

Friday, November 11, 2005

iPods and Viagra
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- It's an iPod universe; we just happen to live in it. The iPod Nano... posted by Michael at November 11, 2005 | perma-link | (21) comments

Monday, October 31, 2005

Subway Musicians
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- I don't often ride subways simply because we don't have them here in the... posted by Donald at October 31, 2005 | perma-link | (11) comments

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Bad Pop
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- Long ago, some visitors expressed surprise when I mentioned that it wasn't uncommon for... posted by Michael at September 28, 2005 | perma-link | (15) comments

Friday, September 16, 2005

Blair Tindall on Classical Music
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- Thanks to Dave Lull for pointing out this lively interview with Blair Tindall, oboist... posted by Michael at September 16, 2005 | perma-link | (8) comments

Thursday, September 8, 2005

R.L. Burnside
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I just learned, a couple of days late, that the ornery and very raw... posted by Michael at September 8, 2005 | perma-link | (7) comments

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Delbert McClinton
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I'm having yet another "What kind of idiot was I?" moment. This one concerns... posted by Michael at July 20, 2005 | perma-link | (9) comments

Saturday, July 16, 2005

Salingaros on the Borromeo
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I'm pleased to run a review of a new recording of a couple of... posted by Michael at July 16, 2005 | perma-link | (1) comments

Friday, July 8, 2005

Afropop and Cuban Music
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I loved reading this Stephen Brown essay about Cuban music. (Thanks to Arts and... posted by Michael at July 8, 2005 | perma-link | (7) comments

Friday, June 24, 2005

Trio Country-Western Documentary
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I notice that the Trio network is throwing a country-western weekend, with broadcasts of... posted by Michael at June 24, 2005 | perma-link | (2) comments

Monday, May 23, 2005

Deals
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- The Teaching Company has moved into a new on-sale cycle. Some of the packages... posted by Michael at May 23, 2005 | perma-link | (1) comments

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Launchcast
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- A few weeks ago, with the usual apprehension, I forked over 48 bucks for... posted by Michael at May 11, 2005 | perma-link | (11) comments

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Delta Documentary
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- "Best music in the world," I muttered happily as Mandy Stein's Delta blues documentary... posted by Michael at April 19, 2005 | perma-link | (14) comments

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Jimmy Miller
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I didn't wake up until much too late to the fact that pop music... posted by Michael at February 2, 2005 | perma-link | (12) comments

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Encore Haydn
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- Terry Teachout has written a lovely appreciation of the music of Joseph Haydn for... posted by Michael at January 19, 2005 | perma-link | (16) comments

Sunday, January 9, 2005

Power Pop!
Fenster Moop writes: Dear Blowhards, I have had only limited success connecting with my sub-teen kids on music when I... posted by Fenster at January 9, 2005 | perma-link | (26) comments

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Blues Snapshots
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I enjoyed blogging recently about what a good time The Wife and I had... posted by Michael at December 12, 2004 | perma-link | (14) comments

Friday, December 3, 2004

Francis Davis on the Blues
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- A couple of months ago I took The Wife to a blues festival in... posted by Michael at December 3, 2004 | perma-link | (6) comments

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Joseph Spence
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I've been listening to and loving this CD by the amazing Bahamian guitarist-singer Joseph... posted by Michael at November 2, 2004 | perma-link | (3) comments

Monday, October 25, 2004

Rick James R.I.P.
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I was saddened to learn that funkmeister Rick James has died at age 56.... posted by Michael at October 25, 2004 | perma-link | (4) comments

Friday, October 15, 2004

Lifetime Learning Update
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- More temptations for lifetime-learning junkies. I'm blessed with ears that crave Western-classical-music sounds, but... posted by Michael at October 15, 2004 | perma-link | (3) comments

Thursday, September 9, 2004

Some Documentaries
From Michael Blowhard Dear Blowhards -- Some documentaries that are out there to be enjoyed: Snapped. This Oxygen Network true-crime... posted by Michael at September 9, 2004 | perma-link | (10) comments

Saturday, July 24, 2004

Guest Posting -- Tatyana on the Russian-Bard Scene
Dear Vanessa -- Honest now: did you have any idea that there's a substantial Russian-bard scene in America? What's a... posted by Michael at July 24, 2004 | perma-link | (6) comments

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Theme Song for the New Urbanism
Dear Vanessa -- I've been enjoying the heck out of James McMurtry's tasty and rockin' alt-country CD Too Long in... posted by Michael at July 21, 2004 | perma-link | (9) comments

Tuesday, June 8, 2004

Alt-Country
I'm a huge, although half-educated, fan of the Austin-based branch of the alternative country-music scene. I suspect lots of people... posted by Michael at June 8, 2004 | perma-link | (12) comments

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Making Music
Morton Subotnick's CD-ROMs Making Music (here) and Making More Music (here) are brilliant music-composition programs for kids that many adults... posted by Michael at May 26, 2004 | perma-link | (2) comments

Thursday, April 29, 2004

My One Opera Tip
Dear Friedrich -- I spent years as baffled by opera as most hetero-male clods are. Hard not to marvel at... posted by Michael at April 29, 2004 | perma-link | (5) comments

Monday, April 5, 2004

"Standing in the Shadows of Motown"
Dear Friedrich -- I just finished watching the DVD of the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown." Have you... posted by Michael at April 5, 2004 | perma-link | (21) comments

Thursday, March 4, 2004

Histories of Music
Dear Friedrich -- How many subjects would you say you're interested in beyond the Intro-to, 101 or 102 level? In... posted by Michael at March 4, 2004 | perma-link | (7) comments

Sunday, February 22, 2004

Rewind -- The Economics of Mozart
Note -- FvBlowhard and I are pleased with some of our very earliest blogwriting, and we're pained that nearly all... posted by Michael at February 22, 2004 | perma-link | (24) comments

Saturday, November 22, 2003

Teaching Company Lecture Series on Sale
Dear Friedrich -- I've blogged before about The Teaching Company, which sells recorded versions of college-level lecture series. I've tried... posted by Michael at November 22, 2003 | perma-link | (15) comments

Tuesday, November 4, 2003

Sociobiological Song Lyrics
Michael: I recently heard an old song by the Georgia Satellites, �Keep Your Hands to Yourself.� The lyrics of the... posted by Friedrich at November 4, 2003 | perma-link | (29) comments

Friday, October 3, 2003

Elsewhere
Friedrich -- * My favorite new blog-discovery is George Hunka's Superfluities, here. George manages the too-rare trick of bringing together... posted by Michael at October 3, 2003 | perma-link | (15) comments

Thursday, September 18, 2003

Evo-Bio of Music
Michael: You�re a lot more musical than I, so maybe you remember this differently, but when I was first introduced... posted by Friedrich at September 18, 2003 | perma-link | (5) comments

Thursday, September 4, 2003

CD Prices
Friedrich -- I was thrilled to read this morning that Universal is cutting music-CD prices by 30%. The dam may... posted by Michael at September 4, 2003 | perma-link | (10) comments

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Free Reads -- Felicity on Music
Friedrich -- One of the best blog postings I've read in a long time: an amazing piece by Felicity McCarthy... posted by Michael at July 30, 2003 | perma-link | (0) comments

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

The Music Business and Its Gatekeepers
Michael: I read an interesting article on the music industry in The New Yorker of July 7 . Titled �The... posted by Friedrich at July 15, 2003 | perma-link | (7) comments

Friday, June 13, 2003

Free Reads -- William Berlind on Itunes
Friedrich -- We aren't the only people gnawing over the question of how the digitizing of almost everything may be... posted by Michael at June 13, 2003 | perma-link | (4) comments

Thursday, March 13, 2003

Bipolar Elvis
Michael: As you know, I�m both a big Elvis fan and a depressive personality. I always thought these were unrelated... posted by Friedrich at March 13, 2003 | perma-link | (7) comments

Friday, January 31, 2003

Free Reads -- The Economist on Classical Music
Friedrich -- An unnamed writer in The Economist delivers a helpful review of Julian Johnson's new book, "Who Needs Classical... posted by Michael at January 31, 2003 | perma-link | (1) comments

Wednesday, January 8, 2003

Free Reads -- Tunes and the brain
Friedrich -- Researchers at Dartmouth using MRI studies have begun mapping out which parts of the brain are involved in... posted by Michael at January 8, 2003 | perma-link | (2) comments

Wednesday, December 4, 2002

Funky Chickens
Friedrich -- Music has been found have a fast and dramatic impact on the moods of very young chickens, reports... posted by Michael at December 4, 2002 | perma-link | (0) comments

Friday, November 8, 2002

Dvorak in Love
Friedrich -- You've got me thinking about 19th century American art, and as I was doing so during this morning's... posted by Michael at November 8, 2002 | perma-link | (3) comments

Wednesday, November 6, 2002

The Church of PBS
Friedrich -- Stephen Foster: Death by documentary "Major funding for this program was provided by Sominex...." Well, not really, but... posted by Michael at November 6, 2002 | perma-link | (0)

Tuesday, November 5, 2002

American High Culture
Michael After reading a history of the NEA last week, I got to pondering the whole question of �high" culture... posted by Friedrich at November 5, 2002 | perma-link | (0) comments

Saturday, November 2, 2002

Free Views -- Cristina Aguilera
Friedrich -- When you check into pop culture as seldom as I do, you lose track of where current pop... posted by Michael at November 2, 2002 | perma-link | (12) comments

Saturday, October 26, 2002

Free Reads -- Trowbridge on dogs and music
Friedrich -- Dave Trowbridge at Redwood Dragon has been thinking about animals, in-born natures, and music, here. Not to be... posted by Michael at October 26, 2002 | perma-link | (0) comments

Thursday, October 24, 2002

The Economics of Janis Ian
Michael One of our correspondents brought to my attention the following article by Janis Ian on the topic of intellectual... posted by Friedrich at October 24, 2002 | perma-link | (0) comments

Friday, October 18, 2002

The Economics of Elvis reredux
Michael You ask what direction would I like to see copyright law take as we move further into the age... posted by Friedrich at October 18, 2002 | perma-link | (0) comments

The Economics of Elvis
Michael Perhaps you noticed the following in the October 12 issue of the Economist: The war over control of the... posted by Friedrich at October 18, 2002 | perma-link | (0) comments

Monday, October 14, 2002

Free Reads -- Glenn Gould
Friedrich -- Rick Phillips writes about Glenn Gould for Gramphone magazine, here. Thanks to cultureblogger Kelly Jane Torrance (here) for... posted by Michael at October 14, 2002 | perma-link | (0) comments

Wednesday, September 25, 2002

Glenn Gould
Friedrich -- Arts & Letters Daily, pointing out that the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould would have turned 70 today, includes... posted by Michael at September 25, 2002 | perma-link | (5) comments

Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Adorno
Michael I was leafing through the book review section of the L.A. Times last Sunday when I stumbled across �Thinking... posted by Friedrich at August 28, 2002 | perma-link | (4) comments

Wednesday, August 21, 2002

Elvis meets Rubens
Michael I've been listening to a good deal of Elvis recently, and have become obsessed with a strange issue that... posted by Friedrich at August 21, 2002 | perma-link | (0) comments