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Dylan's Electric Guitar From Newport Folk Up For Auction
posted: December 6, 2013
There is controversy over the controversy… While the popular story has it that there was much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments when Bob Dylan plugged in at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, with…
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The EditoriaList: Top Nine Rock Stars Turned Producer
posted: August 18, 2011
A lot of musicians produce their own music, but there is a smaller field of those who can produce other artists AND are successful at it. Here’s a list of nine artists better known (in…
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The EditoriaList: Top Ten Fictional Music Movies
posted: July 21, 2011
The EditoriaList is the devious brainchild of one Scott Janovitz, who will use this space to summarize, in convenient list form, the best and worst of whatever occurs to him. Anything related to music, anyway.…
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BACKTRACKING FORWARD: WHITE BOY BLUES
posted: September 3, 2009
When one thinks of blues music, images of cramped, smoke-filled bars and weathered black musicians belting out throaty songs as they fret on their worn guitars inevitably come to mind. The names Muddy Waters, Otis…
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