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If Hicks has turned you onto Van Morrison’s music (or helped you rediscover it) but you haven’t made much of a dent in collecting his work, now’s a good time to start. Over two dozen of Morrison’s albums are being reissued. The first set comes out today and includes Tupelo Honey (1971), It’s Too Late [...]

Astral Weeks would be the subject of this piece - i.e., the rock record with the most significance in my life so far - no matter how I’d been feeling when it came out. But in the condition I was in, it assumed at the time the quality of a beacon, a light on the [...]

What does science have to say about the endorphin rush I get from listening to Taylor Hicks?
Here’s an embedded YouMind’sEye video on the concept of imprinting: [Start video] We see a little gosling hatching from an egg, its shaky head turns and it sees a mother goose. Gosling imprints on mom, and we see an [...]

You know what I love about Mose Allison? Man knows how to have fun. He’s one of those dudes that makes me involuntarily feel like I’m happy. I mean, I know I’m not but you know what I mean. But I’m not downhearted. I’m not. But I’m getting there.

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Anyone who’s listened to Hicks’ improv style knows that recognizing all the songs he teases in is a challenge. A few days ago, one of our readers mentioned that he or she’s been working on identifying one particular song tease for over a year. This came up on the post discussing “Texas Flood” because the [...]