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Apr
28
Samuel Dickison
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Samuel Dickison, a sandy-haired, white-browed son of the Palouse and Moscow, has recently stepped out of the lentil fields with a clean-cut guitar and a well-built voice as one of the most promising nuggets of talent that that this Heart of the Arts has to offer. Read more
Apr
28
Stereopathic: Entertaining Moscow-Pullman
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It’s Stereopathic’s busiest week yet. All told, we’re bringing in six out-of-town artists to entertain Moscow with various forms of folk music, countrified and otherwise. Check out our Birds on a Wire page for links to everyone’s respective myspaces, and for a big fat pic of David Dalbey’s beautiful poster. And, of course, there’s more after the jump . . . Read more
Apr
6
Richard Buckner: Ariel Ramirez
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Richard Buckner’s cover for his 1998 record, Since, shows nine pictures of a candle flame blowing out. The record’s third song, Ariel Ramirez, is the sound of that candle wavering in the breeze, his baritone and guitar fighting against a pointless and paralyzing loss. Buckner’s lyrics suggest more than they tell; it’s almost the sound of them that’s more important than the words themselves. Put Ariel on/And smoke away the night/And do the white net crawl/Until the hammers fall. A piano joins Richard, Read more
Mar
12
Edgar Lee Masters published his Spoon River Anthology in 1915, a collection of over 200 free-form poems spoken from the point of view of the town’s dead, buried in the cemetery on the hill, who, with nothing now holding them back, pour out an unvarnished picture of the town and the complicated tangle of adulterous affairs, murders, illegitimate children, drunkenness, rivalries, and the passions and conflicts and tragedies that brought these people to their deaths. Spoon River immediately gripped the reading public at the time of its release. Read more
