Started reading, "Without Frontiers - The Life and Music of Peter Gabriel." In the prologue there's a story about Gabriel getting back together with Genesis for a benefit concert to pay off a huge debt resulting from the first concert by the organization he created to promore World Music, WOMAD, A bit of history previously unknown to me. There's never been much that's been widely shared about the Peter Gabriel story. The book should be a revelation to longtime listeners of his music.
On the sleeve: "Without Frontiers gets to the heart of the psychological threads common to so many of Gabriel's disparate endeavors and in the end a picture emerges of a man who, despite his high profile, has somehow managed to live an enviably normal life through it all."
From starting out listening to my parents records to staying up late at night listening to the radio to being introduced to album collecting as a teenager to making mix-tapes and into the present, it seems that I've always been searching for and listening to music of widely varied genres. Here's an idea of what I've been hearing along the way ....
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Evening of Jazz
A different kind of Jazz playlist. Not a lot of household names here. No jazz standards here. That doesn't mean it can't be enjoyabl...
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Gary Clark Jr. - This Land. A few months ago (bought it on my birthday), upon first and second listens, other than the opening song, ...
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Culture on display in Salem, Oregon!!! In the middle of an empty lot in town. One story that I've heard is that there once was a used ...
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Leo Kottke - 12 String Blues: Live at the Scholar Coffeehouse. On the Oblivion Recording Company label. From 1969. Found today at my old rec...
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