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K’Naan and the World Cup

At this point, if you’ve been watching anything soccer related, you’ve probably heard the song, “Waving Flag” by K’Naan, but before it was the anthem for the World Cup, it was, in its original form, part of Troubadour, an outstanding album by the Somalia-born rapper who has made an enormous impact on those of us [...]

That’s Why They Call It The Blues

I’ve always marveled at the blues, and the power that a sad song has to transport the singer and listener from a place of pain, to a place of beauty. To share our pain is such a deeply human act that allows us to better see the connections that we have to each other, and [...]

A Short History of Stax Records

Working in a record store, we get a lot of promotional stuff; posters, pins, stickers, whoopie cushions…whatever the labels think will get people talking about their artists. We also get T-Shirts. They are generally XL (record store nerds are generally big dudes, I guess), but over the years, I’ve collected a nice little handful of [...]

Trading Meat for CDs – The Follow-Up

Last week I posted the 16th installment of Overheard at the Record Store, an ongoing collection of funny, strange or otherwise entertaining things that I hear at my record store job. I generally get a few emails/comments/responses about a quote that people like, or something they can relate to, but the following quote generated more [...]

Still Walking on Sunshine

We tend to have a laugh at one-hit-wonders; you know those bands that have been so eclipsed by their hit, that their name doesn’t even ring a bell until someone says, “You know…they do (fill in the blank).” “Oh yeah,” you say, “I never would have known that was them.” That’s right; the sad fate [...]

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