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A.J. Croce's healing new album of classics, 'By Request,' follows death of his wife: 'She was my best friend'

A.J. Croce has experienced the transformative power of music for much of his life, be it as a vehicle for celebration and contemplation, transcendent love and profound loss, and many points in between. With his 10th and newest album, the cathartic “By Request,” music provides a life-affirming way for him to grieve losing his wife of 24 years, Marlo, who died suddenly in 2018 from a rare and sudden heart virus. But Croce does not achieve that catharsis with his own songs. Instead, he turns...
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Language Log » The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility

Yuval Pinter writes: When an English speaker doesnt understand a word one says, its "Greek to me". When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it "sounds like Chinese". Ive been told the Korean equivalent is "sounds like Hebrew". Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph? Well, theres a Wikipedia article on the topic "Greek to me" with a table of correspondences, a page at Omniglot "Its all Greek to me" with a similar t...
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Spinifex Gum: the girls' choir that has put Pilbara life on stage

Spinifex Gum: the girls’ choir that has put Pilbara life on stage By Cat Woods Save Normal text size Advertisement The haunting choral harmony that breaks the dark night, ethereal and resonant, wields the power to silence the audience and, seemingly, to transcend time and place. From the Sydney Opera House stage, 18 Indigenous girls holding microphones look assuredly to the audience. “ Since the dreaming began, our ancestors have taken care of country, and we continue their caretaking...
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Interview with Barry Ferrier – Echonetdaily

Barry does Byron Forty years ago, musician Barry Ferrier rolled into Byron Bay. It was an idyllic place – with surfie bohemian types rubbing shoulders with the old school locals. Barry has been an integral part of a growing, thriving, and always-changing music and arts scene here. It all started when he teamed up with blues harp blower, and surfing legend, Rusty Miller. Barry spoke with The Echo about the early days, ahead of his nostalgic reappearance with Rusty, at the Rails, on Sunday. Wh...
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Woke | Frontpagemag

The N ew York Times. The term has reared its ugly head again recently as a concept symbolizing perceived awareness of social issues and enlightened social movement. By the late 2010s, woke had been adopted as a generic slang term broadly associated with left-wing politics, social justice activism and progressive or socially liberal causes such as anti-racism. Many believe woke is simply a manifestation of adolescent consciousness and wannabe activism. Besides the social idiocy with which w...
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On 'J.T.,' a Grieving Steve Earle Celebrates the Memory of His Son

Tweet Photo: Shervin Lainez Steve Earle has a lot of experience making tribute records to musicians he’s known, cared for deeply and learned much from. In 2009, he released Townes, in honor of Townes Van Zandt, and in 2019, there was Guy, for Guy Clark. Monday, Earle released a tribute that’s the most devastating of the three: J.T., in memory of his son Justin Townes Earle, who died in August.  J.T. consists of 10 covers plus one new original. The covers are songs Steve ...
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