The 'Birds With Broken Wings' Vault

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2008-10-31T00:00:00.001-07:00

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Birds With Broken Wings Has Moved!

2008-10-31T00:00:00.000-07:00

The new Birds With Broken Wings can be found at: http://birdswithbrokenwings2.blogspot.com/ Birds With Broken Wings has moved to a new address. Please click here, or on any of the other links provided to be taken immediately to the revamped...

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One Year Later (More Q&A With The Author of Birds With Broken Wings)

2008-09-05T10:30:00.000-07:00

Q: So after exactly one year of publishing Birds With Broken Wings, what is your take on the success of the site today? BWBW: Well, it’s been a challenge, a second job almost. Putting together what I hope is a literate and intelligent weekly journal...

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God Bless Ray Davies

2008-08-29T10:30:00.000-07:00

Just to be frustratingly maddening (where others may say simply a prick), I've decided to revamp God Save The Kinks into a more concise and personal set list called God Bless Ray Davies. While revisiting GSTK, Pts.1&2, (as well as the now...

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God Save The Kinks, Pt.2

2008-08-22T10:30:00.000-07:00

'Muswell Hillbillies' back-to-the-roots formula was all the vogue when it was released in 1971. Although the National steel guitar and Salvation Army horns nicely complimented Ray Davies themes, they were still a bit jarring to long time fans who...

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God Save The Kinks, Pt.1

2008-08-15T10:30:00.000-07:00

Rounding out the month of August and into early September, I'll be showcasing the song craft of Ray Davies and the music of The Kinks. Select tracks from their extensive, though spotty catalog will be presented over three installments with a focus...

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6 X 6 (In The Long Form)

2008-08-08T10:00:00.000-07:00

No.#3 in a series 1) Xibaba/Donald Byrd with Jerry Dodgion, Frank Foster, Lew Tabackin. Pepper Adams, Bill Campbell, Hermeto Pascoal, Duke Pearson, Wally Richardson, Ron Carter, Micky Roker & Airto Moreira Taken from 'Electric Byrd'/Blue Note...

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The Last Genuine Texas Groover (Doug Sham)

2008-08-01T12:15:00.000-07:00

There is no other musician as synonymous with the Lone Star state as the late Doug Sham, the last genuine Texas groover, and man, they just don't make 'em like Doug anymore. He was the real deal, as American as baseball and as Texan as the Alamo. A...

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Just Another 10¢ Novel From The Five And Dime (A Tribute To Pulp Fiction & Film Noir)

2008-07-25T09:40:00.000-07:00

My name is Jack Stature. I'm a Private Dick, and this is my story. It'd been one long, hot, hell of a lousy day to say the least. The Santa Ana winds were blowin’ like the devil’s breath over the L.A. basin, causin' an eerie stillness that brings...

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Hot Fun In The Summertime (Viva La Musica Latina)

2008-07-17T10:40:00.000-07:00

Look at that mug. It's a face that only a mother could love. That was me, roughly 30 years ago when I still had a glimmer of faith in mankind. The days before life dealt me a few bad hands, before several sure bets turned into certain busts, and...

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TR-i (The Rundgren-index): The Kid Gets Heavy

2008-07-11T07:30:00.000-07:00

No.#4 in a series. O.K., I admit it, I'm a Toddhead. But don't get me wrong, I'm not obsessive about the guy or anything. I mean, I don't salivate over every piece of Rundgren related memorabilia that goes up on eBay, I don't attend every show, nor...

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A Loose Salute (25 Big Ones From The Underappreciated Canon Of Michael Nesmith, The RCA Victor Years)

2008-07-04T11:30:00.000-07:00

Most everyone is already familiar with the name of Michael Nesmith, whether you came of age during his stint with the wildly successful Monkees, or learned of him years later while browsing through an older brother or sister's record collection. His...

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668: Next Door Neighbor Of The Beast (Or Learning To Love Diamanda Galas), Pt. 2

2008-06-27T10:30:00.000-07:00

...Continued from last week When I awoke from the most vivid and disturbing nightmare in recent memory, I was in a cold sweat. Was it a result of fever, or the dream? I was mildly delirious, approaching panic. Again I wondered, had I OD'd on the...

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668: Next Door Neighbor Of The Beast (Or Learning To Love Diamanda Galas), Pt.1

2008-06-20T06:00:00.000-07:00

Diamanda Galas has always been a mystery. A paradox wrapped in a puzzle. A Southern California girl from suburban San Diego who produces some of the most somber, intense, and compelling music that one is likely to hear in their lifetime. But let's...

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Biff! Bang! Pow! (From Beat To Paisley Pop), Pt.3

2008-06-13T10:50:00.000-07:00

In the last two parts of this series, I've been showcasing the transition in mid-60's popular British music from the innocuous Beat, to the more aggressive rave-ups of Freakbeat, which in turn led to the shimmering Paisley Pop of 1966-67. Over a...

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The Night I Told 'The World's Greatest Bass Player' To Fuck Off (The Saga Of One Man's Encounter With The Troubled Mind Of Jaco Pastorius)

2008-06-06T11:00:00.000-07:00

I have the utmost respect for Jaco Pastorius. I really do. Employing one of the most unique and harmonic approaches to the instrument, he not only revolutionized the way the electric bass is played, but he also wrote many wonderful compositions,...

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4 X 4 (In The Long Form)

2008-05-30T10:50:00.000-07:00

No.#2 in a series. This 'In Long Form' mix is a aural journey that begins The Harmonics Choir performing meditative music within a church of God, located in southeastern France. It then travels across the burning sands of Egypt in a nomadic...

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Blame It On The Bossa Nova

2008-05-23T11:03:00.000-07:00

At the risk of sounding like a press release, I wanted to make mention that this weekend marks the 30th anniversary of San Francisco’s Carnival, an annual celebration in which primarily, the city’s Caribbean, Brazilian, and greater Latin American...

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Short, Fast And Loud (Confessions Of An Angry Young Man)

2008-05-16T11:15:00.000-07:00

Am I angry? Fuck yeah, I’m angry! You would be too if you grew up with all the crap I had to! That’s why I’m pissed, 'cause I'll tell ya' man, my life’s been pretty shitty so far. I look around, and everything just sucks. Nobody cares what happens...

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The Doctor Is In (The Deceptively Casual Music Of Ben Sidran)

2008-05-09T10:30:00.000-07:00

Ben Sidran, like Joe Boyd and Todd Rundgren, both of whom have recently been featured in these pages, is another artist who possesses a long and impressive resume of accomplishments and successes. Of the three, Rundgren stands out as the most...

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Songs From My Father's Record Collection

2008-05-02T11:30:00.000-07:00

When I really stop and think about it, almost everything I've ever featured here in Birds With Broken Wings is conceivably a song from someone's father's collection. Figure it this way, I'm old enough myself to be the parent of an adult child, so if...

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TR-i (The Rundgren-index): Utopia/From Prog To Pop

2008-04-25T10:45:00.000-07:00

No.# 3 in a series. In a rather savvy business move early in his career, Todd Rundgren established himself not only as a working musician, but also as a record producer, overseeing diverse recordings by the likes of Hall & Oates, New York...

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Inside/Out (Strata-East Records)

2008-04-18T10:00:00.000-07:00

Among the music blogs that I visit with regularity, there has been a revitalized interest in the seminal Strata-East record label, an independent jazz imprint founded by trumpeter, Charles Tolliver and pianist, Stanley Cowell. The extraordinary...

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White Bicycles (The Legacy Of Record Producer Joe Boyd)

2008-04-11T12:40:00.000-07:00

Joe Boyd has had the uncanny ability of being in the right places at the right times, unwittingly witnessing, and subsequently altering the course of pop culture and its history. Not that his legacy has been purely happenstance. Boyd has the well...

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5 X 5 (In The Long Form)

2008-04-04T13:15:00.000-07:00

'5 X 5 (In The Long Form)' marks the inauguration of yet another series here at Birds With Broken Wings*, wherein I plan to explore the long song form with compositions from all genres of music that at least run, or exceed 10 minutes in length. A...

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