Category: Top 40 Over 40
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Top 40 Over 40.33: Blemish
I think I’ve found my personal record of the year. It’s Roberta Flack’s First Take. There’s a song on it called I Told Jesus that joins Jesus is Waiting by Al Green as the only songs that give me a feel for what it is about Christianity that moves people. (I was raised in a…
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Top 40 Over 40.32: Double Sunrise Over Neptune
There’s an hour left on the first day of 2022 in my time zone. Enough time left to get started on one of my new year’s resolutions: to write shorter posts on this blog, and to write them more often. Here goes. There are very few times these days when I feel like I’m missing…
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Top 40 Over 40.30: Duke Ellington, 1962
One of the things I admire about the jazz tradition is the fluidity with which musicians move from being leaders to sidemen. Take an album like Conference of Birds by Dave Holland. I mostly knew Dave as a sideman for Anthony Braxton and Miles Davis. But then Braxton turns around and plays sideman for Holland’s…
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Arches & Pathways: New Album with Dennis Callaci Streaming Now!
I have a new record coming out on 11/20/20 that I made with my friend Dennis Callaci at his house in July of 2019, fresh off a fun tour of New Zealand and Australia. It comes out on Friday but you can stream the whole thing via Magnet Magazine online, right now. It was mixed…
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Top 40 Over 40.29: 50 Ways to Be Steve Malkmus
When I started writing this series a number of years ago, I didn’t think I would be including Stephen J. Malkmus in the line up. My last year in college I had 7 roommates, several of whom played Slanted & Enchanted like 75 million times. I burned out on Pavement in the process, mostly through…
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Top 40 Over 40.28: Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
Yes, social media can be a waste of time, and a low self esteem machine. Yes, it facilitates hate and social sniping. But – with a good roster of musical friends it can also introduce you to a lot of great new music – both in the sense of just released, and new-to-you. My latest…
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Top 40 Over 40.27: No Protection
Remixes usually disappoint me. I often imagine it’s because they’re run off quickly without the remixer having an in person musical relationship with the artist they’re remixing. I didn’t really dig either the UNKLE or Dust Brothers remixes that were done of Folk Implosion’s Natural One & Insinuation. When One Part Lullaby came out in…
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Top 40 Over 40.25: Wise Intelligent
Even rarer than artists making great records after 40 is those who are able to do so in quick succession. Back when I was high school, Hüsker Dü released New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig only 8 months apart. It’s hard to imagine young bands doing that in today’s post-internet crash music economy, let…
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