sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON # 72 weekly supplement Sunday 20 10 2024

"The idea is to reuse the horses that were in a warehouse, unused, and thus take advantage of the transfer made at the time by the author and which expired in 2026,"
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A SUITCASE FULL OF DREAMS

Who knows whether the definitive biography of Kris Kristofferson is yet to be written?
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tuned in to BOOM

Nanci Grifith wrote and recorded a great song that was not only a tribute to pioneering ´country´ singer writers like Loretta Lyn and Emmylou Harris, but also a celebrfation of the radio.
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Lanzarote Tourism ALL DRESSED UP

Our home town of Playa Blanca recently successfully hosted the Lanzarote Tourism Awards ceremony for 2024.
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KRISTOFFERSON

Kris Kristofferson, who died Saturday at age 88 in Maui, Hawaii, had not one but two successful careers: the first as a country-music songwriter and the second as a movie actor.
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FUNMI ONONAIYE: OMNIPRESENT

Funmi Ononaiye, the regal, omnipresent music connoisseur, who was an inspiring ray of light in his capacities as A&R director, event producer, artist manager, performing musician, and mentor to many people, died on December 18, 2023, at Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City.

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON # 71 weekly supplement Sunday 13 10 2024

I have fond memories of the Castleton Literary and Scientific Society, and I am still amazed at the broad church of their ethos and of their congregation.
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BOOKS BY LARRY YASKIEL

I always made sure I was with artists when they were in the studio on the first day of making a record and was always trying to be with them on the first day of a tour, too, to make sure they had all they needed.
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A DANGLING CONVERSATION

It began with Larry telling me he had been watching a music documentary series on Sky Arts about how so many black musicians and writers were paid only a pittance for their catlogues, because of signing contracts that they didn´t realise were offering royalties that were less than one per cent of what recording companies were offering to white musicans.
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS & MUTUAL PRAISE

When Liz and Dee realised that Larry and I would be neither deterred or detoured on our musical pilgrimage of a chat, they decided to hitch their wagons to our star, and made their own contributions. Dee talked Motown, in the shape of Diana Ross & The Supremes, while Liz, to my amazement spoke of Canadian artist Robin Thicke and his huge, but controversial hit with Blurred Lines.