influences

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Emulation or Impersonation?

There is a time to end the journeyman phase.

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“He ain’t my boss, no more.”

Something like a subtle yet seismic shift happened last week: I began disconnecting from Bruce Springsteen.

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Lyric of the Week: ROCK’N’ROLL BASTARD

I’m what you call a rock’n’roll bastard ... you either love me or you hate me.

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In search of a microniche

Recently I have begun to take an online music-marketing course that applies the techniques of niche marketing to the new (i.e.,...

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A postcard.

The obvious: The classic “Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.” The postcard came long before the record. But it was the perfect vehicle that...

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Greetings from The Hesh Inc.

I was all of a wee second grader when this came out, without an inkling of who this artist was ...