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Authenticity seems to be a recurrent concern in popular music – from Richey Edwards “4 Real” self-mutilation to hip hop artists perpetual concern with being “real”. Country is no exception…
For me, a little Lee Hazelwood can go quite a long way – there is something grating and mannered after a while about his musical persona. Still, when he is…
An entry by Prof Michael Ruse on Carl HempelFrom The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. I particularly like the second paragraph… Hempel, Carl Gustav ( 1905 – 97 ). One of…
In my teenage years I thought Joy Division or The Smiths of The Cure of “Pornography” were the ne plus ultra of angst. Boy, was I wrong.
Let’s face it, this is one of the great album covers and one of the great country story songs. You don’t get the likes of this from Radiohead.
One of the first, if not the first, albums I bought independently with my own hard-saved chore money was the Talk Talk compilation Natural History. It turned out this was…
A while back I posted “Be Still”, a poem by Agnes Hunt RHSM which is displayed on a board at the Holy Family Retreat Centre in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford. There…
I posted Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s “Flannery and Dante” the other day. Here is another poem by O’Donnell, this time dealing with Flannery O’Connor and St Thomas Aquinas. “Flannery and St…
Séamus Sweeney 