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The Thing That Is

  This video is ten years old. At the time, Fred Harriss was billed as “Britain’s longest-serving blacksmith.” He’s been banging away since 1938, when he was ten years old. Well, let’s face facts. There was really only one man who was likely to break Fred Harriss’ record,

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The Nose Under the Tent Smells Coffee

I’m back in Augusta, Maine, where it’s impossible to find a good cup of coffee. Bear with me while I refer back to Mérida, Mexico, for contrast, where it’s nearly impossible to find a bad cup of coffee. Well, there’s at least one place you can find a

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The Ultimate Five-Chord Band

Yikes. This record is nearly twenty years old. Funny how time slips away. Every decade for thirty years, Donald Fagen released a bit of a masterpiece. First, The Nightfly in 1982, Kamakiriad in 1993, and Morph the Cat in 2006. The H Gang swings, don’t it? And it’s

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Persian Carpet Jazz

That’s Christian Capiozzo on drums, Mecco Guidi on Hammond organ, and Daniele Santimone on Guitar. You just know you’re going to get quality stuff when three Irishmen get together like that. 

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Sure, Why Not Come and Get Your Love?

That’s Toni Lindgren + Northsoul, whoever that is. She (they) seem to have embraced the current aesthetic and assembled a fine little cult on social media and whatnot. Semi-mucho views on YouTube. Got a webpage, too. Girl guitar players still rate some extra man-bites-dog attention if they’re any

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Que Paseo

Well, I’ve been blabbing about the Paseo Montejo over and over. I suppose I should show you what it’s like. This poses problems. It’s easy to characterize it simply as a big boulevard that runs north and south in the middle of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, because it is.

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