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FOREVER YOUNG LASTS FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

April 28, 2019 by

A song like Forever Young is a nice thing until something sears it right into your brain instead of bouncing off your ear, turning the dial, and moving on. Forever Young is such a song for millions. It’s the song for every parent who has seen their kid move from stage to stage, from rolling […]

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Dylan Song For 2018 Mid-Term Elections

August 17, 2018 by

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside And it is ragin’. It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’.  

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Bob Dylan Time Shift From Second Gear To Overdrive

August 16, 2018 by

    Like so many today, I also feel change in the wind, and like any baby boomer worthy of the tag, I consult the only text reliable enough to lay it all out in understandable language.   No, not the Bible, or any religious narratives.   I turn to Bob Dylan, and so should […]

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Mother Movie Makes You Cry For HGTV, And Your Mommy

September 27, 2017 by

    From total ruin to a beautiful restoration, Mother! shows a dream house. HGTV does this all the time and no one complains. The Property Brothers find a client willing and able to knock a wall down to ‘open up the kitchen’ and everyone cheers.   Jennifer Lawrence is the remodeler in Mother!. She […]

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: NO NOBEL LIKE A NEW JERSEY NOBEL

March 17, 2017 by

    Bruce Springsteen a future Nobel Laureate? If Bob Dylan wins a Nobel Prize for Literature, why wouldn’t the man once called ‘The Next Bob Dylan?’ Along with lyrics that dare challenge the scope of epic rock and rollers of the past, Gilgamesh, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, The Boss and his body of work stand […]

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LADY GAGA RECONNECTS ROOTS

November 23, 2016 by

Did Tony Bennett win a Nobel Prize? It’s fair to call Lady Gaga the Prince of her generation. She covers so many eras, does everything so well. Both look good in purple. But Prince never embraced Tony Bennett, and Tony looks a ripe purple. Point for Gaga.

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE SACRED SIX PACK

October 18, 2016 by

Did Bruce Springsteen grow artistically from bad parenting? Here’s the real question: Did growing up with a dad who smoked ’em when he had ’em, and worked a six pack in the dark, make Bruce Springsteen who is today? His old man was hooked on Camels, or Marlboro’s, or Winstons,  and liked to cool them […]

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LUMINEERS PLAY PORTLAND

June 1, 2016 by

Once you’ve seen a Lumineers concert your baby boomer brain starts working. It might happen with others, too. If so, leave a comment. Are the players in Lumineers channeling their inner Grateful Dead? Phish? Who do they sound like? At some point all bands share a common note, a thread of recognition. Then they played […]

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BABY BOOMER RESENTMENT, Con’t

January 12, 2015 by

The Beatles. For all the bands that go on forever, The Who, The Stones, Bob Dylan, why did we lose The Beatles so early? Baby boomer abandoned? Could be they burned so bright they went blind to our needs? Five years of top albums in the decade might do it. The Beatles had their five. […]

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WHEN FOREVER YOUNG GOT OLD

September 25, 2014 by

Bob Dylan Knows The Drill   Few poems and song lyrics speak to the baby boomer generation better than Dylan. People listened to his early work and it changed their lives. Why should it stop? Because his later work doesn’t compare to the early days? If that’s the best you’ve got, spin the old vinyl […]

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