Category: rock music
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Why Sheryl Crow is making the best music of her career now
So let’s start all the way back to 1994. Sheryl Crow releases her debut album called “Tuesday Night Musical Club.” It was a good debut and yielded a huge hit with “All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun.” I liked it. But that’s not where I really want to start. I want to start…
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It’s an Akron thing. Apparently.
It all started innocently enough. The week of New Year’s eve had me thinking about sauerkraut. This was something I didn’t experience much growing up in the ‘burbs just south of Akron, but once I met my wife it became a part of my New Year’s Eve celebrations. Her family would have a New Year’s…
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Why I’m Lucky to Have Become a Pseudo Punk
It’s 1980. I’m a first semester college student and I have discovered something fantastic. I’m about to sort of become a punk rocker. Sort of. In the summer before I started college, a friend from high school asked me if I wanted to stop by the campus radio station he was working at before we…
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Why Michael Stanley Band Will Always Define Growing Up In Ohio For Me
Maybe MSB never became international rock stars, but for an Ohio boy, they defined growing up in The North Coast.
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Why Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Are The Best Rock Band of All Time
So first of all, before you freak out, let’s just say this: I set The Beatles aside in this discussion. As they were a complete force of nature in a category all their own, I would never limit The Beatles to simply being a rock band. They were so much more in every way. So…
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