God only knows how a mortal could make divine music.
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201: Bob Dylan, ‘All Along the Watchtower’
Bob Dylan at his best. Which is to say the art of our time at its best. For time capsules, for satellites to distant universes, for future generations: this is what we had to offer.
Continue reading...125: Bee Gees, ‘Holiday’
I say ‘The Bee Gees’ and you snicker. But before these three white Australian brothers started sounding like three black American sis-tahs, they were compared favorably with, ahem, The Beatles. The Brothers Gibb – Incarnation #1.
Continue reading...133: Spencer Davis Group (Stevie Winwood), ‘I’m A Man’
My secret internal ringtone.
Continue reading...198: Buffalo Springfield, ‘Rock and Roll Woman’
Buffalo Springfield was a flimsy amalgam of superegos, whose main common attribute was a group identity crisis. But, oh, what music they made on the way to their dissolution.
Continue reading...109: Daniel Zamir, ‘Shir HaShomer’
A story about shifting gears, about accelerating tempi, about breaking through to the other side, and about new modes of perception. It’s also a story about the early days of Zionism, about nostalgia for childhood, about Lubavitch Hassidut, about prodigality, and about having fun.
And it’s ultimately about jazz.
310: Yehuda Poliker, ‘Ashes and Dust’
Two Israeli rock stars confront their Holocaust legacy.
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