James Taylor (picture James Taylor)
James Taylor is offering to teach the world how to play his unique finger picking guitar style. Free. On YouTube.
The project started in October and he just posted Lesson 3 called Second Wheel. Continue reading
The media stories have Hollywood corporate fat cats reeling from Wednesday’s shutdown or blackout of more than 12,000 websites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Wired. NJN Network did its small part by wearing black all day.
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Wikipedia goes dark for SOPA protest
If SOPA passes the US Congress in anything close to its current form, the internet as we know it will be essentially dead.
We are joining sites around the world to protest like Wikipedia, Flickr, and Reddit.
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A recent Bob Dylan performance of Blind Willie McTell with Mark Knopfler follows the break.
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Mike Masnick founder of TechDirt
TechDirt is one of a kind – editor Mike Masnick works tirelessly writing stories every day to promote freedom of speech and freedom on the internet.
Mike has written articles denouncing censorship, state control around the world including the US Congress attempt through SOPA to shut down the internet as we know it. Continue reading
Paul Leka (photo Joseph Bly NY Times)
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye went # 1 for a band called Steam. Today it is the sports chant of fans for retiring pitchers and sports losers of all stripes.
Paul Leka died of lung cancer on October 12th in hospice near his Connecticut home. Leka was 68.
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You know me – I`m into all things Bob Dylan and 60s rock and roll. When Apple released Outlaw Blues – Adventures in Counter-Culture Wars by Jonathan Taplin I was like `show me the store`.
Soon I was trapped in the iPhone store.
The book promised first person narrative from Jonathan Taplin who now teaches at USC. He was Bob Dylan`s tour manager.
Outlaw Blues is a searing tale of the rock and roll and film revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s told by an insider who worked with Bob Dylan and The Band, George Harrison and Martin Scorsese to change the cultural landscape of America. Continue reading
This is not your usual romance. Be forewarned. Lyrics follow the break.
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Lovesick October 11, 2011
Mark Knopfler is touring with Dylan this Fall in Europe.
You gotta love fans who breeze past the security and capture video this great. What a kickass band!
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Melanie
Our lives are filled with songs. I was reminded today of the song Brand New Key by Melanie when messaging a band in Allentown, PA.
Back in the 60s, I dated a girl in Easton, PA down the highway from Allentown. She was dead ringer for Melanie, at least to me. The resemblance would stick with me despite the fact that Melanie was just another folk singer in Greenwich Village in 1966 when I was hitch hiking to the States.
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