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[koganbot]

A piece of mine is in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006: an excerpt from my Country Music Critics ballot for 2005. There's also an excellent piece by freakytigger about "Eleanor Rigby" and "Yellow Submarine."



Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006

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[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Hooray! 2 reasons why this year's must be better than last year's. Will try and pick up a copy when I'm in NYC, although some copies of these usually make it across the water...

[koganbot]

Another reason is that the editor, Mary Gaitskill, has a strong feel for how music lives in the life of the culture. See her excellent novel Veronica, for instance. (And I still treasure her Radio On review of "Plush" by the Stone Temple Pilots: "What stands out to me is the line, 'When the dogs begin to smell her.' Are they talking about somebody's cunt or what?") A disadvantage might be that she isn't hooked into the rock-critic world. For better or worse Da Capo tends to pick editors for this series who are literary types who like music rather than music critics themselves, which means the choice of pieces drifts towards what will appeal to literary intellectuals.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Miss AMP's piece on the lovely kevin blechdom is also excellent IIRC.

[koganbot]

I just got my copy so haven't read more than a couple of the other selections, but Mary speaks highly of Greil Marcus's account of "Masters of War," its life and adventures. She also inexplicably sees me as employing a delicate hand when I take mallet and crowbar and wedge a psychotic community into Shannon Brown's "Corn Fed."

[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

congratulations, frank.