Tag: Soy Aqui

• Coca-Cola loses one in India

  One of the songs on my forthcoming record is called simply “Coca-Cola.”  Mark Pendergrast’s book For God, For Country and For Coca-Cola reveals that this is the most widely recognized group of syllables on the planet, except for OK, which holds onto the top spot for now, but perhaps not for long.  Back in 1971,…

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  September 7, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Education, Music, Politics, Work In Progress

  Coca-Cola, diabetes, El Pulpo, India, India Resource Center, KillerCoke.org, obesity, Soy Aqui, Upcoming Releases, water

• Busking in the digital age

  I’m planning on doing a Kickstarter campaign in July to help with the costs of recording and mixing a new album with Scott Solter this summer.  We will be starting by doing a few days in the studio late next week! At any rate, I have a pretty good draft of the rewards, but I’m…

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  June 20, 2014

  Music, Site News, Work In Progress

  Blue Mountains, Kickstarter, Scott Solter, Soy Aqui

• Reckoning with early REM

  Recently I’ve been working on two projects at the same time, Gnawing on the Bone and Soy Aqui.  I usually don’t do this but have found that there is an upside to it that reminds me of the story behind the REM song Life and How to Live It.  The song is about a resident…

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  February 16, 2014

  History, Music, Politics, Record Reviews, Work In Progress

  Byron Coley, Douglas Blackmon, E.H. Harriman, Elizabeth Sturger Llerena, Eric Lott, Gnawing on the Bone, Life and How to Live It, Love and Theft, Michael Stipe, Neil Young, Race, Reconstruction, REM, Slavery By Another Name, Southern Man, Southern Pacific, Soy Aqui, the South, The Wild Bunch, Traces of the Trade, Upcoming Projects