Bruce Springsteen
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Update
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Too busy for much blogging for the next few weeks. In the meantime: First, my grad students: Goodbye to one just finishing, hello to my new one, congratulations to the one who just transferred to official PhD-student status, and, finally, to the one staying on as a postdoc! I’m excited that I’m able to still…
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Bruce on the Beeb
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BBC4 let us spend a night with my New Jersey homeboy, Bruce Springsteen. Selections from The Seeger Sessions, recorded with a BBC audience at St Luke’s in London, gave us middle-aged Bruce as protest singer, rocking up some folky standards. This may indeed be what the world needs now, but with its whitebread, bespectacled audience,…
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Idiot’s delight
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As much as I miss Today and most of BBC Radio 3 (especially Late Junction and Andy Kershaw) when I’m away, it’s always a joy to be able to listen to National Public Radio back in the US (it’s just not the same streamed over the net). Especially pleasurable this trip was rediscovering Vin Scelsa’s…
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