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Down by the river, Charlotte Yates
How to Listen to Pop Music Nick Bollinger Awa Press, $24.95, ISBN 0958250960 Nick Bollinger is well known as a music reviewer or, perhaps the weightier epithet, rock journalist. He has worked in print media since 1988 for, among others,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Awa Press, Charlotte Yates, Issue 69, Nick Bollinger
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
On the Main Trunk Line, Charlotte Yates
An Ordinary Joker: the life and songs of Peter Cape ed Roger Steele Steele Roberts, $59.95, ISBN 1877228125 For a singer, Peter Cape has always struck me as an anomaly, with his thin nasal tenor, tentative tuning, and strongly defective…
Tagged with: Charlotte Yates, Issue 55, Peter Cape, Roger Steele, Spring 2001, Steele Roberts
Posted in Biography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Perils and blessings, Charlotte Yates
“Imprints” I have three Joni Mitchell albums in my collection – The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Blue and Heijira. They have acted as both a personal and a professional musical resource. They’ve become albums I return to, not exclusively but…