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Music Notes

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 14, 2023

I don't have any shows lined up for January, which I don't much like. But I did have one exciting musical moment in the last two weeks. I finally watched Les Blank's film A Poem is a Naked Person, which is a sort of profile...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,005

By Erik Loomis

On January 30, 2022

This is the grave of Leon Russell. The real-life version of Cousin It was born in 1942 in Lawton, Oklahoma. Russell grew up with the piano and proved more than.

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