Yet as I've grown older, I've mellowed into another valuable relationship with the work of certain artists. These are the ones I follow over time, and refuse to abandon, no matter what damage Twitter is doing to my attention span. They're my lifers: the creative spirits who helped me nurture my own spark as a kid and then continued to mirror my pathway, sometimes in the background, but always generating a certain sense of recognition.
Walter Salas-Humara is a guy like that for me. He's led bands under the name The Silos since 1985; I discovered him around 1989, when my future husband played me the band's second album, Cuba. I couldn't stop listening to it and to the other stuff he'd recorded at that point: another Silos album, the solo outing Lagartija, stuff from the Silos' sister band, the Vulgar Boatmen.
I loved the sound of the music. It's rootsy and ragged, and very attuned to the thrift-store ethic that defined my life by then – the idea that no idea or practice can be exactly new, but it will be renewed through the act of absorbing and reimagining it. And then there was Walter's songwriting: lyrical and romantic, but always turned a little wry and a little sad by the outsider's sensibility rooted in his youth as the son of Cuban exiles growing up in Florida. — Ann Powers, NPR
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‘I’m Over You’ (1990)
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I’m not going to be around very long tonight. I have a meeting in the morning with my org’s new VP and Sr. VP so I’ll be turning in early. You know, first impressions and whatnot.
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‘Take My Country Back’ (1990)
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‘(We’ll Go) Out of Town’ (1990)
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WHO’S TALKING TO WHO?
Jimmy Kimmel: Billy Crystal, Emma Corrin, Seventeen (R 6/23/21)
Jimmy Fallon: Tina Fey, Wyatt Cenac, Dayglow (R 5/20/21)
Stephen Colbert: Jim Gaffigan, JP Saxe with John Mayer
Seth Meyers: Jake Tapper, Nicole Byer, Paul W. Downs (R 5/25/21)
James Corden: Chris Pratt, Ed Sheeran
Lilly Singh: Laverne Cox (R 3/17/21)
SPOILER WARNING
A late night gathering for non serious palaver that does not speak of that night’s show. Posting a spoiler will get you brollywhacked. You don’t want that to happen to you. It's a fate worse than a fate worse than death.
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Lucinda Williams ‘I Just Wanted to See You So Bad’ (1988)
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Galaxie 500 ‘Fourth of July’ (1990)
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LAST WEEK'S POLL: WHAT IS THE WORST NATURAL DISASTER YOU'VE EXPERIENCED?
Blizzard 36% 5 votes
Earthquake 21% 3 votes
Hurricane 21% 3 votes
Tornado 7% 1 vote
Tsunami 0% 0 votes
Volcanic eruption 7% 1 vote
Wildfire 7% 1 vote
Other 0% 0 votes
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HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE 4TH OF JULY!