Listening to Simon Joyner and Tyler Wilcox’s recent conversation about Neil Young’s song “After the Gold Rush” for All One Song: A Neil Young Podcast, I recalled that I had written an interpretation of the same song in an unpublished essay exploring the recurrent imagined image of the flooding of Los Angeles in the workContinue reading ““The Dream of the Gentle Flood”: Thomas Pynchon, Brian Wilson, Neil Young & Los Angeles”
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Neil Young & The Santa Monica Flyers, Chicago, IL – November 20, 1973
On November 20, 1973 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, Neil Young and his backing band The Santa Monica Flyers performed a rendition of “Tonight’s the Night” for 34 minutes and 53 seconds. That night in Chicago was the penultimate concert of the tour which had started in Toronto on October 29, moved onContinue reading “Neil Young & The Santa Monica Flyers, Chicago, IL – November 20, 1973”
Feather by Feather
From the beginning of Bill Callahan’s career when he recorded under the name Smog until the present releasing music with his given name, Callahan has been signed to the record label Drag City. In the early 2000s, while still using the Smog moniker, Callahan was one of three white male recording artists signed to DragContinue reading “Feather by Feather”
Recliner Notes 