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		<title>Mark Anthony Neal &#8211; &#8220;The Last Soul Brother: James Brown (1933-2006)&#8221; (2007)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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A January 2, 2007 eulogy on Soul Brother #1, by Mark Anthony Neal, courtesy of the PopMatters website. A legend&#8230;gone but never forgotten&#8230;


James Brown was of a generation of black men—mythological in many ways—who helped define the contours of freedom and possibility for black folk in the 20th century. They were the generation of “Soul [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatpatrol.wordpress.com&blog=4264175&post=13154&subd=beatpatrol&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timothy White &#8211; &#8220;Van Dyke Parks and B&#8217;rer Rabbit&#8221; (1985)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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February 1985 article from Musician magazine, by the late Timothy White, on eccentric genius Van Dyke Parks&#8230;


Update the Lost Art of the Minstrelsy


“Hey Parks, where the hell have you been for the last nine years?”
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		<title>Jon Brion &#8211; &#8220;Meaningless&#8221; (2001)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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This debut solo album, recorded in 1997 and finally released on his own Straight to Cut-Out imprint, comes from Jon Brion, the genius behind such evocative, brilliant film scores for Punch Drunk-Love and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The review of this album comes from the PopMatters website and was written by David Medsker. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatpatrol.wordpress.com&blog=4264175&post=13142&subd=beatpatrol&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Abbey &#8211; &#8220;Betty Davis: Filthy But Funky&#8221; (1975)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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An August 1975 Blues &#38; Soul article on the outrageously funky Betty Davis&#8230;


It&#8217;s funny how some women are genteel yet others may be quite the opposite – yet still manage to retain their femininity.
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		<title>Delmore Schwartz &#8211; &#8220;The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;the withness of the body&#8221; &#8212; Whitehead
The heavy bear who goes with me,
A manifold honey to smear his face,
Clumsy and lumbering here and there,
The central ton of every place,
The hungry beating brutish one
In love with candy, anger, and sleep,
Crazy factotum, dishevelling all,
Climbs the building, kicks the football,
Boxes his brother in the hate-ridden city.
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		<title>Led Zeppelin &#8211; &#8220;Led Zeppelin II&#8221; (1969)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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John Mendelsohn&#8217;s dripping-with-sarcasm take on Zep&#8217;s second album, from Rolling Stone (issue #50), Dec. 27, 1969. The Kinks-loving Mendelsohn was clearly not a Zeppelin fan&#8230; 


Hey, man, I take it all back! This is one fucking heavyweight of an album! OK – I&#8217;ll concede that until you&#8217;ve listened to the album eight hundred times, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatpatrol.wordpress.com&blog=4264175&post=13126&subd=beatpatrol&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ian MacDonald &#8211; &#8220;Can: They Have Ways of Making You Listen&#8230;&#8221; (1974)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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An NME article from Nov. 9, 1974 about Krautrock legends Can&#8230;


One night in November 1969 the phone rang in Irmin Schmidt&#8217;s Cologne home. Schmidt got out of bed to answer it and found himself talking to a guard on the Swiss-German frontier at Basle.
&#8220;We have a crazy black guy in our cells here,&#8221; said the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatpatrol.wordpress.com&blog=4264175&post=13081&subd=beatpatrol&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conrad Schnitzler &#8211; &#8220;Conviction&#8221; (2007)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Taken from the Cyclic Defrost website comes this Ewan Burke review (March 20, 2007) of Krautrock legend (and former Tangerine Dream and Kluster member) Conrad Schnitzler&#8217;s album Conviction (released on the Ricochet Dream label)&#8230;



Conrad Schnitzler is a bona-fide krautrock legend. Born in Dusseldorf in 1937, he went on to study sculpture with Joseph Beuys in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatpatrol.wordpress.com&blog=4264175&post=13118&subd=beatpatrol&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Weekly Address (Nov. 28, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Chris Salewicz &#8211; &#8220;Tangerine Dream: 1983 &#8211; A Synthesizer I Will Be&#8221; (1975)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Article from the New Musical Express, April 12, 1975 on electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream&#8230;


Do Tangerine Dream, wizzkids of organic electronic rock, play their instruments?
Or do the instruments play them?
No two ways about it, Tangerine Dream sure is a weird one.
Glancing through my rejected stream of consciousness notes from their London concert I come across &#8220;sounds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatpatrol.wordpress.com&blog=4264175&post=13066&subd=beatpatrol&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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