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ANONYMOUS GIG REVIEWS: part 4 of The Bloodliners Festival

John was great - the sound was crisp, clear and loud and he did six of the "Havana" songs and a good sprinkling of older and newer ones.  He used a twelve string Taylor and a Godin nylon strung [Acousticaster?].
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FIND SOME HEALING IN THESE SONGS: part 2 John Stewart Bloodliners Festival

Think about John Stewart today today, listen to that incredible body of his work, think about the electric personality we experienced in EVERY show he did
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ITS ALRIGHT ITS ONLY MUSIC: part 1 of John Stewart &The Bloodliners Festival.

In 1968 Stewart supported Robert Kennedy's ill-fated presidential bid, singing at campaign rallies.
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MADE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY MIAMI ?

A PIRATE LOOKS AT 50 is a breath of fresh air and a ingenious manual for getting to 50 . . . and beyond.is covered including his passion for flying planes, and how he almost died in a watery crash.
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JIMMY BUFFETT TAKES THE LAST BOAT HOME

I have always wondered if Townes Van Zandt, in a good way, might be turning Heaven into a Hell of a place., and now I wonder whether Jimmy Buffett will buy some sea-front property up there and throw barbies on Sundays.
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OXFORD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2023

Each festival and celebration of chamber music has its own unique dynamic and I think OCMF’s emanates just as much from the musicians as the atmosphere of Oxford’s extraordinary surroundings and rich historic context.
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THE MUSIC THAT MATTERS

Stewarts´s musical journey in song, says Tina Benitez Eves, stretches from one of the greatest entertainers of the 1920s through a late ’50s rock and roll pioneer, the soul of the 1960s, and a few contemporary artists.
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ROCK GOES ACADEMIA

teaching us how to ´´not only hear music but also how to liten to it.

LOOKING TO LEARN ABOUT THE BLUES

Delmark is this year celebrating its long run with a new, single-disc compilation, Delmark Records 70th Anniversary Blues Anthology. Bob Koester founded the label (originally named Delmar) as a 21-year-old kid in St. Louis. But it became much more than a sideline when he moved to Chicago in 1958, opened the legendary store known as the Jazz Record Mart, and expanded his label.