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    • 21 Ratings
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    I Don't Miss the Bars

    JANUARY 16, 2012 7:43AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: road stories, bar gigs, bars, honky-tonks, musicians, music business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1607 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    The Carp King, Itchy Toilet Paper, and Really Good Beer

    JULY 27, 2011 7:10AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: true story, czechoslovakia, musicians, travel, country music, nashville, sam and annie tate, perley curtis, touring, prague, pilzen, velvet revolution, southern bohemia, mark ortmann, prazdroi beer

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1736 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    How I Became a Guitar Man

    JULY 13, 2011 7:38AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: true story, musicians, beatles, guitar, folk music, singer songwriters, learning guitar

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 13072 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    The London "Rock and Roll" Summers: 48 Lancaster Gate

    JULY 3, 2011 11:51AM

    By Keka


    Topics: travel, musicians, 60s music, 60s london, 70s london, the 70s, the 60s, english slang, british apartment rentals, vacation homes, british vacations, rock groups, groupies, english bands, england, british rock, rock music, music, the who, beatles, british invasion, london

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 2509 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Singer, Songwriter Andrew Gold Dead at 59

    JUNE 6, 2011 7:49AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: breaking news, eagles, music business, musicians, music, linda ronstadt, bryndle, andrew gold

    • Editor's Pick
    • 44 Ratings
    • 1852 Views
    • 75 Comments
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    Party Conversations from: The Good, the Bad and the Famous

    DECEMBER 28, 2010 10:49AM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: new year's party, kitsch, toilets, food, foodie tuesday, christmas, party, 60's rock bands, music, musicians, mini dresses

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    • 6 Ratings
    • 28759 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    The Other Star of 'This Is It,' Guitarist Orianthi Panagaris

    OCTOBER 30, 2009 8:10AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: entertainment, musicians, this is it film, this is it musicians, guitar solo, virtuoso guitar, lead guitarist, guitar, kenny ortega, michael jackson, this is it, orianthi, orianthi panagaris

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 3473 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Mary Travers Dead at 72

    SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 9:59PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: leukemia, rhymes and reasons, peace protest, antiwar protest, martin luther king, march on washington 1963, leaving on a jet plane, erika with the windy yellow hair, follow me, where have all the flowers gone, famous deaths, musicians, death, folk songs, folksingers, peter paul and mary, mary travers

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