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Jack White Exits Artistic Rollcall Stage Left

Say hello to Coca Cola’s newest pitchman, Jack White of the White Stripes, selling drinks to bovine America.

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Raconteur indeed.

This brings to mind the late comedian Bill Hicks‘ rant about Jay Leno shilling Doritos when he obviously didn’t need the money. At one point in time Bill had considered Jay a great comedian and even a friend, afterall he had helped Hicks get his first TV appearance on Letterman, but the idea of Leno selling his soul in order to discuss inane topics with celebrities on late night TV was too much to bear.

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By the way, Jack White, Brendan Benson and whoever the hell else is in the Raconteurs will be appearing at this summer’s Lollapalooza festival in Chicago… brought to you by Bud Light.

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Blood Feathers

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Who’s got the junk? Rattle off a list of cities with the best music scenes for me. Whaddya got? Austin? Seattle? Chicago? Athens, Georgia maybe? What about Philadelphia? I ask only because I care. And because the city of brotherly love would be near the top of mine.

Over the past five or six years bands like Mazarin, Shellito, Need New Body, Dr. Dog, Espers, and even the Spinto Band have worked their way into my rotation and never really left. And now Blood Feathers have joined the party.

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Slow Moon Rising

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Coincidentally perpetuating the current male/female duo theme, I have been currently listening to a good-sized dosage of Brightblack Morning Light. Brightblack consists of Nathan Shineywater and Rachel Hughes, childhood best friends who grew up in Alabama, and drummer Noah Wilson, whom they met upon moving to Humboldt. I am a late comer of sorts to their music considering their first full length, Ala.Cali.Tucky, was initially released two years ago next month.

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If You Sing It, They Will Win

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So I just returned from a 24-hour road trip to Saint Louis so I could attend the Cardinals’ Opening Day and enjoy the festivities surrounding the opening of Busch Stadium III – Revenge of the Swill*.

In keeping with their out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new theme, the first pitch ceremony featured last year’s Cy Young and MVP, Chris Carpenter and Albert Pujols, simultaneously throwing out first pitches to past Cy Young and MVP, Bob Gibson and Willie McGee. It was like a big juicy baseball sandwich – a wonderful, spring afternoon filled with drinking overpriced beer out of wax cups in standing room only smushed in between two 5+ hour slices of tooling down Interstate 70.

Seeing Willie McGee out there got me to reminiscing during my drive home. During Willie’s first year in the majors, he hit two home runs in the third game of the World Series against the Milwaukee Brewers and made a several outstanding plays in the field. That was 1982, the last time the Cardinals won the Series, but it was also one of the last times they would have a theme song.

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