“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. –Atticus Finch, […]
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Alex Chilton fans are probably familiar with these stories, but I wanted to collect them in one place. They address what I call his “missing years,” a 20-year span bookended by Big Star‘s dissolution in the mid-’70s and their re-emergence as indie gods in the mid-’90s. Those two decades are critical in understanding Chilton’s iconoclasm, […]
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It ain’t every day that a guy’s favorite team wins the championship in glorious, tradition-rich college football. And if that guy’s favorite team is the Alabama Crimson Tide — his alma mater, no less — then perhaps a musical celebration is in order. So, in honor of my beloved Tide and their 14-0 run […]
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New Adios Lounge mission statement? Just throwing it out there. It’s either this or the thing about team-building, synergy, and never giving in to our robot overlords. Frankly, I’m torn. Anyhoo, while I work on a post that includes the likes of Sam Cooke and Doug Sahm — and maybe a certain EC — […]
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Vulture Whale: Wes McDonald – vocals, guitar Lester Nuby – guitars, vocals Keelan Parrish – bass Jake Waitzman – drums Welcome to my latest obsession involving Alabama and big guitars. Vulture Whale hail from Birmingham and sound like huge chunks of my record collection bolted the stacks and formed a band. There are moments that […]
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