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Posted by on Aug 25, 2018 in 100 Essential Albums, Blog, Music and Concert Reviews | 1 comment

100 Essential Albums: #93 — Teatro by Willie Nelson [1998]

 

 

I’ll always love you in my own peculiar way.

— Willie Nelson

 

From the opening note of the first song on Willie Nelson’s vastly underappreciated 1998 album, Teatro, we realize we’re in for something astoundingly different.

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Posted by on Aug 10, 2018 in 100 Essential Albums, Blog, Music and Concert Reviews | 1 comment

100 Essential Albums: #96 — The Doors by The Doors (1967)

 

 

“Every time I hear (the song, “The End”), it means something else to me.  It started out as a simple good-bye song.  Probably just to a girl.  But I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood.  I really don’t know.  I think it’s sufficiently complex and universal in its imagery that it could be almost anything you want it to be.”

— Jim Morrison (an in interview shortly before his death at age 27)

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Posted by on Aug 6, 2018 in 100 Essential Albums, Blog, Music and Concert Reviews | 6 comments

100 Essential Albums: #97 — Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back by Frank Sinatra (1973)

 

 

“And the sky has got so cloudy when it used to be so clear…”

Many of Sinatra’s recordings weren’t just songs.  They were vicarious expressions of our very own deeply-subdued emotions, in many cases reflecting loss that Sinatra himself suffered over many decades.  Sinatra’s voice conveyed both an acceptance of defeat and confidence that it was okay to feel sad and then reflect upon it.

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