Robert Baird

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Robert Baird
New Depression Songs
Robert Baird  |  Jun 19, 2009  |  4 comments
Seems to me most musicheads always have a reserve of bands, solo artists, string quartets, jazz soloists that they know but haven’t really seen or connected with. You know `em but you don’t.
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New Math
Robert Baird  |  Jul 13, 2007  |  2 comments
Here's a number to contemplate: 52% of recorded music sales at Sony/BMG are now via downloads.
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New York Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Robert Baird  |  Aug 03, 2006  |  0 comments
Just prior to the morning hour at which most liquor stores open, Don Byron and I are sitting outdoors at a sidewalk cafe on a steamy Park Avenue South (Technology Gulch)when a scene breaks out on the sidewalk. Byron (head turns and he murmurs): "Oh my god." A stringy–haired, smelly, obviously intoxicated woman staggers after a younger, taller man who's also worse for wear, and hollers in a drunken growl: "I got my own phone now. Yes it is. It works you used it." Byron (laughing): "It's the metropolitan wino scene. You know what I mean? You know the scene in Firenze, now here it is in New York. It has all the elements: the dirty clothes, the ruddy skin, the formaldehyde lips."
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Newvelle Jazz
Robert Baird  |  Jan 29, 2016  |  1 comments
The movement towards a super premium vinyl “experience,” and the larger notion of vinyl as a lifestyle is getting another eager supporter as a new subscription-only label, Newvelle Records, launched this week via a Kickstarter campaign.
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No Show No More
Robert Baird  |  Apr 26, 2013  |  5 comments
Country music is almost extinct.
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Nobody's Fool
Robert Baird  |  Jul 13, 2006  |  1 comments
Last night in a torrential rain storm, I trucked northward along the Hudson to Tarrytown, NY. A half hour's ride across the Tappan Zee bridge and we were in Piermont, NY at a club called the Turning Point.
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NOLA Vinyl
Robert Baird  |  Dec 11, 2015  |  1 comments
Stereophile contributing editor John Swenson and I had the good fortune to stumble upon an LP collection the store had purchased and put out in the “new arrivals” section.
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Norah Returns
Robert Baird  |  Dec 09, 2016  |  3 comments
Perhaps there’s a little nostalgia talking here...
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Northampton Saturday Night
Robert Baird  |  Oct 02, 2015  |  1 comments
A lesser known but no less active music town is Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Nothing But Mr. Nice Guy
Robert Baird  |  Aug 07, 2006  |  0 comments
So there I am, sitting eating my lunch, watching the news on TV, waiting like the slavering dog that I am for more Mel goes Mad, when none other than Alice Cooper a.k.a. Vince Furnier, he of the large pearly whites and the exquisitely died hair, comes on CNN and begins batting his bright eyes and cheerfully expounding on his new youth center in Phoenix.
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Oh Canada!
Robert Baird  |  Mar 20, 2015  |  0 comments
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Oh Daddy
Robert Baird  |  Feb 22, 2013  |  7 comments
The bigger the record, the more fascinating what was left behind.
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Oh My God, They've Killed Mel
Robert Baird  |  Aug 01, 2006  |  0 comments
Holy Molars Batman, South Park has been outdone by so-called real life! Say it ain't so!
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Old Ideas
Robert Baird  |  Feb 17, 2012  |  8 comments
We should all be so lucky. To be alive, creative, and thoroughly (and wonderfully) corrupt as 77-year-old Leonard Cohen is on his new record, Old Ideas.
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Old Souls
Robert Baird  |  Jul 16, 2010  |  0 comments
One of the many musical sawhorses that I often put the spurs to—being a pain the bass just comes with the territory I’m afraid7#151;is the whole bit about why labels who are all hurtin’ right now don’t spend more time digging in their vaults and hauling out treasure in the form of unreleased studio material and especially live shows. Well, the emerging empire that is Concord Records (proud owners of the catalogs of Telarc, Fantasy and now, Rounder Records), a label whose judgment I have questioned in the recent past (Stax Does the Beatles, WTF?), released a killer record earlier this summer that’s been finding its way back to my Musical Fidelity CD player as of late, Otis Redding, Live on Sunset Strip collects performances that didn’t make it onto the two previous albums, In Person at the Whisky a Go Go and Good To Me: Live at the Whiskey A Go Go Vol. 2, that came from a three night stand at the Whiskey in L.A. over Easter weekend 1966. While the set list of the three full sets on these two CDs contains some repetitions, it’s great to hear
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