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Song Of The Day – Figure’s Can’t Calculate by Rikky Barnett

Posted on 29/09/2024 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

From the single “Figure’s Can’t Calculate” (1983)

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Essential Listening: Voices Of Freedom – Bob Dylan, Ron Wood & Keith Richards (1985)

Posted on 29/02/2024 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

I’ve been meaning to focus on this one for a while. It’s been prompted by reading the illustrated edition of Robert Shelton’s Bob Dylan – No Direction Home, which I got from my aunt at Christmas. You can buy it … Continue reading →

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Essential Listening: IDM for late spring/early summer – Jan Jelinek circa 2001-2002 & Consumed in Key – Plastikman & Chilly Gonzalez (2022)

Posted on 31/05/2022 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

T.S. Eliot stated that April is the cruellest month. Well at this latitude I’d add May to that too. It’s a tease of a month; the summer solstice gets closer, days lengthen considerably, the wind no longer bites quite so … Continue reading →

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Why I’m voting Yes.

Posted on 15/09/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

I’ve been writing steadily for about seven years now. Not for one second do I think I’m good, or even average at it. It can be hard to offer an honest, objective appraisal of one’s own work, and really, being … Continue reading →

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