Reading Mademoiselle Gantrel
We squinted into the smoky room and saw ourselves on junior year abroad, frolicking on the Left Bank with artists in berets like hers.
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Posts Tagged: The Grateful Dead
Songs of Our Lives: “Looks Like Rain” by the Grateful Dead
By the time I was introduced to the Grateful Dead, I was not only desperate for change, I needed it.
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The loose and infectious melody of “Hey Pocky A-Way” has been covered and re-recorded many times since its first release in 1974 by New Orleans funk heavyweights The Meters. The highly recognizable chorus–which reputedly stems from early Native American dialects in the region that would come to cradle New Orleans–has lost most of its linguistic meaning, […]
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