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January Cartoon
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January Cartoon

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

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The Walk
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The Walk

By Mayer Hawthorne

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: Sometimes I just like to laugh. This song takes an old theme (“beauty is only skin deep”) and an old sound (doo wop) and combines into something catchy...
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Yellow Moon
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Yellow Moon

By Neville Brothers

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is one of those songs that just makes you tap your feet, especially as it’s performed live at Farm Aid concert almost twenty years ago. Favorite lyric:...
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“Uncle John’s Band”
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“Uncle John’s Band”

By Grateful Dead

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: I never “got” the Grateful Dead as so many of my friends did. But since the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is opening a new exhibit to...
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The Warmth of Other Suns
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The Warmth of Other Suns

By Isabel Wilkerson

October 15, 2019

by Isabel Wilkerson Book Link Editor’s Note: Wilkerson is a first time book writer but a Pulitzer Prize winning feature writer for the New York Times. This epic non-fiction work...
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Have Fun Today
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Have Fun Today

By Mike Perkins

October 15, 2019

Favorite lyric:  “Stop trading your life for pay” Editor’s Note:  Many  songs I like have deep meaning.  Others are just good campfire material.  This Mike Perkins tune is loved for...
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Into The Mystic
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Into The Mystic

By Van Morrison

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Just a song I love for the rhythm and the feeling of the music itself. No great lyrics this time, though the feeling they give me...
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Chelsea Morning
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Chelsea Morning

By Judy Collins

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Seems like a perfect song to accompany my book-of-the-month "Simple Prosperity." My sisters loved this song and would blast it early in the morning from the...
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Murder in the City
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Murder in the City

By The Avett Brothers

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: It's a strange title and as with other Avett Brothers music this one uses humor to get your attention then delivers a message. Here, it is...
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Somewhere over the Rainbow
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Somewhere over the Rainbow

By Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

October 15, 2019

Note: This medley version of Judy Garland and Louis Armstrong's most famous hits are done by a Hawaiian artist who died very young in 1997. The artist became famous by...
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Everybody's Had the Blues
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Everybody's Had the Blues

By B.B. King, Joe Louis Walker

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Blues became interesting to me when friend John Zingg turned me onto BB King in college thirty-some years ago. This song is written by one of...
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Churchill by Himself
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Churchill by Himself

By Richard Langworth

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: I’ve often wondered how Winston Churchill could be so often quoted, and now I know. He wrote over 15,000,000 million published words – books, speeches, articles, letters and...
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Me and Bobby McGee
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Me and Bobby McGee

By Kris Kristofferson

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: This is just a great throw-back song for me. A lot of memories come to me from this hitchhiker’s ballad of missing their mate, some of the best...
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Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music by David Samuels
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Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music by David Samuels

By Tim McCarthy

August 20, 2019

Editor’s notes:  I am both lover and hater of Neil Young during my 50-some years of listening to his music and his thoughts.  But this article is one of the...
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East of Eden
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East of Eden

By John Steinbeck

April 25, 2019

Editor’s Comment: A friend tells me that at least once a year good readers should read a classic. I took her advice and reached back for this one. Though less famous...
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The Circle
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The Circle

By Dave Eggers

March 27, 2019

Editor's Comment:   If you are not a fan of satire, and i am generally not, this is a tough read. But reading it six years after its publication makes...
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Greatest Charts | Don McMillan

By Tim McCarthy

February 28, 2019

Editor's Comment:  This is our first try at video article instead of our usual print piece.  Seems worth it as I laughed most of the 9 minutes of this Don...
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I'm Only Sleeping
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I'm Only Sleeping

By The Beatles

November 29, 2018

Editor’s Comment: My son and I finally saw the Cirque du Soleil  performance of “LOVE” last month.  Since then, I’ve spent some time going through my collection of Beatles music...
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October Cartoon
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October Cartoon

By Tim McCarthy

September 29, 2018

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

By George Harrison

July 27, 2018

Editor’s Comment:   The Beatles covered such a broad array of styles that my “fandom” is highly selective.  This, along with a half dozen others, is epic in my view;...
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July Cartoon
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July Cartoon

By Tim McCarthy

June 28, 2018

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