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Merle Haggard (1999)

December 31, 2014/  No Comments

“…you’ve got these perfect people performing perfect music and it’s perfectly boring to me.”     At the end of the 1990s, Merle Haggard was one disgruntled country music legend.

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Oscar Brown Jr.

December 22, 2014/  No Comments

“Liberating the slaves is not popular.”               It’s a mystery: What killed Oscar Brown Jr.’s career? Rule out drugs, booze, out of control ego or any of the usual suspects in tales of show biz ruination. The cause of Brown’s baffling fade remains unclear, but undoubtedly had to do […]

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Aretha Franklin (1995)

December 8, 2014/  No Comments

                      Aretha Franklin hates the new biography about her, “Respect” by David Ritz. She’s condemned it: “a very trashy book…full of lies and more lies about me.” I didn’t hate it. It’s the best book yet about the Queen of Soul. That said, I’m kind […]

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