This month marks the 46th anniversary of the Tate/LaBianca murders committed by Charles Manson and his cult-like Family. A nightmarish event with lasting cultural impact, music is central to its story. This and last weekâs posts explore the connection. At … Continue reading →
A Sharp Turn A girl. A daughter, a sister, a lover. A prostitute. Ruby lips. Thin, delicate, pretty. Big feet. A fat girl. A clutz, a clod, a chub. A drunk girl. Drowned, lost, forgotten, betrayed. A dead girl. A … Continue reading →
Neil Young, New York 1970 photo by Joel Bernstein This is the fourth and final post of our initial discussion of Neil Youngâs âOhio.â Here are the first, second, and third posts. I know, I know. On the fourth post … Continue reading →
Crosby, Stills, and Nash perform âOhioâ at a May 4 Commemoration at Kent State University, 1997 (photo: Kent State University archives) This is our third post on Neil Youngâs âOhio.â Read the first here and the second here. In researching … Continue reading →
Devo from left, Bob Mothersbaugh, Mark Mothersbaugh, Alan Myers, Gerald Casale and Bob Casale This is the second post in our series on Neil Youngâs âOhio.â Read the first post here. âItâs still hard to believe I had to write … Continue reading →
John Filoâs Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of the then 14 year old Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller, one of the four Kent State University students killed by National Guard troops at on May 4, 1970. … Continue reading →
Neil Young This our fourth post so far on the familiar murder ballad âTom Dooley.â âThe first post discusses some of the history behind the song. âThe second post discusses the history of the song itself, from regional to international … Continue reading →
As we saw earlier in the week, thereâs great controversy about âPowderfingerâ and what story it is trying to tell us. What always gets to me about this song are the two things that I know itâs about for sure. … Continue reading →
As I mentioned in my first post, thereâs no small controversy over what, exactly, âPowderfingerâ is about. Aided by the abundance of specific details in the lyrics, especially about that boat, almost all interpretations nod to Youngâs political sensibilities in … Continue reading →
Neil Young This week we take a look at âPowderfinger,â the classic Neil Young song. Although itâs been discussed ad nauseam by die-hard Young fans and is the subject of no small controversy among them (weâll get to that in … Continue reading →
