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Ask Greil: March 27
When you ran through the “Season of the Witch” cover versions [March 6], you didn't mention a version the Dream Syndicate did it in studio at KPFK in…
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Chez Panisse: Eighties
A Brief History of Chez Panisse in Four Parts In 2010 Alice Waters asked me to write the text for a book celebrating the 40th anniversary of Chez…
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The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Vulgar Boatmen
February 1993
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Chez Panisse: Seventies
In 2010 Alice Waters asked me to write the text for a book celebrating the 40th anniversary of Chez Panisse, which came out the next year as 40 Years of…
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The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The summer-of-love generation reaches the White House. So do their kids.
January 1993
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Top Ten or so “Rock N Roll Threat” Notes (by Howard Hampton)
Howard Hampton sent this in as a response to the Real Life Rock Top 10 item on Jeffrey McCarty’s video for Foster Timms’s “Rock N Roll Threat.” He says…
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Mar 14
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Real Life Rock Top 10: March 2023
1. Lana Del Rey, “A & W” (UMG). As bass and acoustic guitar open the song, and then carry it through the next four minutes, it almost doesn’t let the…
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The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Pop Music Saves the World Again. Not.
December 1992
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Ask Greil: March 6
Loved the phrase "chilly elegance" in your piece about Donovan. Spot on description of the music but also the comedown after the heat of the peak. Do…
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The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Donovan
November 1992
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February 2023
Triple Elvis: Baz Lurhmann 2022 / Ed Sullivan 1956-57 / Comeback Special 1968
Last fall, the director Baz Luhrmann asked me to write a short piece for a “Writers on Writers” feature in Variety. I’d loved his film of The Great…
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The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Roger Clinton
October 1992
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Feb 23
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