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I wish. They. All. Could. Be Caaaalifornia . . . .

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We are absolutely gutted to hear this news. The sound that Mr. Betts helped craft is the backbone of our radio show, The Free South. His music always hits you right *there*, and there is no other word to describe it but "soul".

The entire Wash Day Radio Network team sends our love, oceans of light, and our deepest condolences to Mr. Betts' family, friends, and colleagues. His spirit lives on through you, and we hope that knowledge will give you comfort and peace at this awful time. We genuinely believe that Dickey resides now in a place where he is finally understood. God bless him, and all of you.

#RIP to the mighty Dickey Betts.

#dickey betts #guitarist #allman brothers band #rip #southern rock #the free south

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If we don't know each other personally -- as in, mutually-supportive-DMs personally -- don't read anything into it when I reblog you. I'm only in it for the content.

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Here's the video:

#aretha franklin #this day in history #1967 #otis redding #don covay #Youtube

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I'm a classically-trained flautist and singer. As part of various groups, I've played big halls whose names you'd probably know if you lived on the West Coast of America. I've made money playing music. I've done studio work, writing, and arranging -- the latter since I was 14.

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In spite of it all, I don't find it necessary to impress people with self-consciously obscure taste in music that doesn't feed my soul.

You shouldn't either. Like what you like. Be who you are. Take courage. Be free.

#hipsta please #musical tastes #be yourself

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Well, what do you think just happened?

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Iris DeMent (above) just showed up, uninvited, to our taping of tomorrow's Febrile Ohms broadcast, and DEMANDED to be let in.

She said her dear friend and "kindred spirit" (his words), Eric Trump, had assured her she would be given a hero's welcome.

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Well, Eric Trump (above) is no friend of ours, so it was a resounding No on both counts.

Just when you think you've sussed out someone's demographic . . . .

#iris dement #eric trump #febrile ohms #radio show #all kinds of nope

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Oohhh, that's today. Outstanding!

good riddance live

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There was never a band like Rush. Geddy Lee doesn’t want to forget it.

#geddy lee #rush #autobiography #Holocaust #prog rock

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Tom Smothers, half of Smothers Brothers sibling comedy duo, dies at 86

"The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" was the kind of show you were always afraid your parents would turn off.

It wasn't that you were afraid of missing The Who or The Buffalo Springfield -- although that was a factor. It was that The Smothers Brothers kept you on the edge of your seat, wondering what they would say next.

They were more dangerous than the hippies with the funny clothes and the spaced-out slang. The Smothers Brothers were dangerous in the way that *you* were dangerous -- "sassy", and "too smart for your own good".

They were dangerous because they refused to lie -- just like you.

God bless Tom Smothers, then; his family, friends, and colleagues at this sad and painful time.

I will always be grateful that he said what he meant. To the scared yet hopeful kid trying to disappear into the couch cushions, it was everything.

#RIP, Tommy Smothers.

#tom smothers #smothers brothers #vietnam war #1960s #folk music #protest

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‘Home Alone,’ ‘12 Years a Slave’ join National Film Registry

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#zahara #south africa #freak folk #alt country #rip

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A long read. If you're into any of these 👇 artists, we hope you're up for it.

#killer mike #tom morello #pitbull #the chainsmokers #stand together music #charles koch #machine gun kelly #political action

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No, of course we're not going to tell you how these songs "chart". You don't need to be told what to buy. Just enjoy the music.

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I don't even know where to start. Like Shinny O'Connor's music, Shane MacGowan's was so . . . *necessary*, dammit, then his demons fucked it up.

I saw The Pogues one time, at the Hollywood Palladium in 1987. It was the most innovative, invigorating, thoroughly Celtic music I'd ever heard. He found space for Joe Strummer, Spider Stacy's pennywhistles, and a centuries-old, lute-like instrument called a cittern. I know this, because we went up to the band and asked. See, Shane MacGowan made space for us fans, too, with his absolute joy in the authenticity of it.

I know y'all love Fairytale, but if you're not holding Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash close to your heart, you're wrong.

Because God hears us, I know Shane MacGowan is in a place where many people believe and hope he is not. That, too, was a triumph of his Irishness: He saw God and all His saints from close to the ground where, if we're honest, most of us are.

You did it, lad. You were a light in a grimy housing, but we saw you. We saw you.

#RIP, Shane MacGowan.

#shane macgowan #the pogues #rip #irish music

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The Day the Music Died, #2

Just found out that producers have been using Autotune to correct superstar country singers' use of blue notes -- a style that dates back to the bluegrass music of Bill Monroe, and the days when bluegrass music *was* country music.

They been bleaching the Black out for a long time, y'all.

#autotune #country music #bluegrass #blues #racism

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Join us for the Dixie Hour today at NOON SHARPISH on Clear Channel Radio stations ALL across the country.

Yes, I'm shouting. Still tryna put out the 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥I started when I curated this playlist.