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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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A Mugging in Mérida

We got mugged in Mérida. Kinda. Sorta. I guess I better explain. Mérida is the capital of Yucatan state, in the southeastern portion of Mexico. Mérida is more or less the whole state when you get right down to it. There are outlying towns, but nearly everyone in

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The River of Souls

We saw a river of souls. It flowed into the Parque San Juan in Mérida, Mexico through a stone gate barely removed from the middle ages. I’ve never been in a crowd like that. It pulsed and vibrated and bellowed in and out. Roared and whispered. It processed

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Living My Dreams the Way I Ought To

Well, it’s that time of year again. Hallowe’en? That’s amateur hour. Stephen King stuff. I’m talkin’ serious business. The Hanal Pixan is happening in Merida, and it truly is a happening. Hanal Pixan is different from the Day of the Dead celebrations in other parts of Mexico. It’s

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Greatest Hits

Bits of my life pulled out and flung on the Internet floor

Show No Enthusiasm; Don’t Complain

Winter came like a postcard a long time ago. The snow drifted down in slow motion, the big, fat flakes parachuting in and accumulating gently

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Maine Family Robinson

Rumford Delenda Est

I did something well out of the ordinary yesterday. Or was it Thursday? I don’t know. Or is today Thursday? I don’t know what day

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Sagas and Compilations