The Big Ears Festival returns once again March 21 – March 24, 2024, bringing together an impressive diversity of musical artists and bands to Knoxville, TN, that rivals any other festival in the country. That it is presented indoors without any requirement to camp in a pasture or a desert with hundreds of other festival-goers,Continue reading “2024 Big Ears Preview”
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Tokyo Storm Warning
An earlier piece on Recliner Notes investigates Bob Dylan’s song “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and the different traditions from which Dylan examined and pulled, including rhyming songs, nonsense songs, Chuck Berry’s “Too Much Monkey Business,” and skatting within songs. At the core of the Dylan song and these other song forms is the rhyming and unrelentingContinue reading “Tokyo Storm Warning”
Series of Dreams
In 2001, the director Richard Linklater released a film called Waking Life, which centers on one man’s experiences as he interacts with a variety of different characters who share observations, memories, and theories with him. These scenes are interrupted by the protagonist waking up and realizing that some of the exchanges he is having withContinue reading “Series of Dreams”
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