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DAVID CROSBY: R.I.P.

Mr. Crosby was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two times, as a member of each group, was at the heart of the Laurel Canyon music scene in Los Angeles and was considered one of the founders of folk rock.

HIGH CEILINGS: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

tills and Nash, who had each dealt with all that in the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Hollies, respectively. They started singing together for the thrill of it, and they quickly realized that they harmonized with an uncommon purity that astonished their friends. That feeling of amazement carried over to the listening public when the trio released Crosby, Stills & Nash at the end of May 1969, thanks to songs including “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” “Long Time Gone” and “Helplessly Hoping.”

DOLLY AND THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dolly Parton works 9 to 5? Don´t believe her. That´s just fiction. She works 24/ 7 / 365
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ARE WE THE BOOKS WE READ?

Running steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick's exchange of more than twenty years with Leonard, a gay man who is sophisticated about his own unhappiness, whose friendship has "shed more light on the mysterious nature of ordinary human relations than has any other intimacy" she has known.

ART MATTERS ! Now, more than ever

In time of crisis and isolation, the role of art becomes more central to our lives, whether we realize it or not. There are as many of us turn towards the arts for some explanation of these accursed times as there are turning towards the sciences.…
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INSIDE RIGHT LEFT OUTSIDE

I truly believe that Jimmy Cricket should be celebrated far and wide. I cannot recommend this book highly enough!

your free WEEKEND WALKABOUT volume 1

Welcome to the first edition of WEEKEND WALKABOUT which picks up all the stories we hadn´t found space for on our daily blog. We are also grateful that Steve Cooke will share with us his UK column so that we will always have something to talk about wherever we meet along the sidetracks and detours, all across the arts.

FINALE: STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Norman Warwick reads a A WEST-SIDE STORY OF SONDHEIM An intimate portrait of a genius: the late Stephen Sondheim, is a series of illuminating and deeply personal interviews from the last years of his life that show the composer-lyricist…

STAGE A SIT-IN

Julie Hesmondhalgh has called on supporters of Oldham Coliseum to STAGE A SIT-IN as Steve Cooke reports From his all across the arts office in Rochdale Steve Cooke, (left) has updated his story that we published last week under…

LOOKING BACK AT BURT BACHARACH

Music can also follow sidetracks and detours and can integrate communities in any part of town: in the concert halls, the folk clubs, the country side, along the blues alleyways. Burt Bacharach songs can be heard in all of them, and many of them have enjoyed interpretations by musicians playing in the jazz joints of the UK.