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Split and Crazy
[For information about this image (“Mirror Mask”), see the artist’s statement at the foot of this page. Clicking on the image above will enlarge it, if you want to experiment.] From whiskey river:...
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Caught by Surprise
[Image: a key (and classic) moment in Fritz Lang’s 1931 thriller, M: the murderer, played by Peter Lorre, learns he’s a (literally) marked man.] From whiskey river: We can never know what to want,...
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Midweek Music Break: Linda Ronstadt, “Old Paint”
[Image: Texas longhorn cattle drive, as depicted by Nick Eggenhofer. The horse may or may not be old but it is not, alas, a paint.] Let’s get the music going right at the outset, and save the...
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Midweek Music Break: Linda Ronstadt, “Trouble Again”
For reasons which may (if I’m lucky!) become obvious in a few days, I recently combed through RAMH to see when I’d featured this song here. I couldn’t believe what my eyes (via the Search feature here,...
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A Direction in Which to Look
[Video: Linda Ronstadt sings “Blue Bayou,” in a performance filmed in September, 1977. (Lyrics here.)] From whiskey river: Imagine yourself streaming through time shedding gloves, umbrellas, wrenches,...
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Midweek Music Break: Linda Ronstadt, “Long, Long Time”
In an issue of Esquire Magazine, back in the 1980s, I read a piece by Ron Rosenbaum called “Melancholy Baby,” which opened by talking about the saddest songs ever: great heartbreak songs. (At left is,...
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