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Guy Clark: For the Sake of the Song
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Robert Baird  |  Mar 05, 2014  |  2 comments
As songwriters go, Guy Clark has been touched by the muse more than most. Unfortunately, in recent years he's also been visited by illness and heartache. In June 2012, his wife of 40 years, Susanna Clark, who was both a songwriter ("Easy from Now On") and an artist (the cover of Willie Nelson's Stardust), died in Nashville. In the past several years Clark, 72, has battled lymphoma, had his knees replaced, and undergone an arterial replacement in one leg. He was being treated for skin cancer when I visited his home, south of Nashville, in October 2013.
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Happiness is a warm...MP3
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Robert Baird  |  Jun 11, 2007  |  1 comments
You gotta hand it to The New York Times; they do try and cover the audio industry. And when it comes to dumbing it down, they truly aren't fucking around. Rather than have to read an article from last week's Circuits section on how MP3's might someday sound better, A Quest for That Warm Sound of Old (June 5, 2007), which was printed just above a piece entitled Making Tunes a Fixture on the Patio (snaring more Jersey readers is obviously an NYT priority) here are the some beauties, salient or otherwise. "The more you turn it up, the punchier it sounds…" "…tries to sweeten digital sound by putting back what compression has taken out." "…what are people really going for, accurate reproduction or pleasing reproduction?" "Our technology tricks your brain into hearing something that isn’t there." "When you can't hear the difference anymore, it's overkill." "The process is never perfect." "With a good recording, the quality may be improved by tweaking the playback." "Don’t throw away your records yet."
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Happy Birthday Cole Porter
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Robert Baird  |  Jun 09, 2016  |  6 comments
What a songwriter!
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Happy Christmas: The Beatles Fan Club Singles
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Robert Baird  |  Dec 18, 2017  |  4 comments
Connecting with your most loyal and engaged fans is not a marketing strategy that was born with the advent of Facebook and Twitter.
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Happy Together
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Robert Baird  |  Sep 26, 2014  |  3 comments
Do the singles in this boxed set which features a quality pressing job and nice if no frills packaging sound better than the CDs that both Rhino and the pair’s own label mentioned above have been releasing over the years?
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Harry Again
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Robert Baird  |  May 23, 2014  |  1 comments
The long overdue rediscovery and re–enshrinement of Harry Nilsson that began with the 2010 release of the film, Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?) shows no signs of abating which is a good thing for fans of the man’s songwriting and most of all, his peerless voice.
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Harry We Hardly Knew Ye
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Robert Baird  |  Sep 06, 2013  |  1 comments
The worlds of creating and selling music have never been in such a dramatic state of change. While the CD declines, the LP is resurrected. As piracy charges along undiminished, downloads continue to increase in sales. And then there’s streaming….
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HE 2007
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Robert Baird  |  May 14, 2007  |  0 comments
What a great show HE 2007 turned out to be. Large crowds and much good feeling all around. If two channel audio is truly dying then I didn't see it. Lots of good sounding rooms, much impressive, well-priced gear, a successful RAVE awards and a hotel with a key location all made for a very successful show.
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Hear The Wind
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Robert Baird  |  Nov 21, 2014  |  4 comments
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Hearts Afire
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Robert Baird  |  Aug 29, 2014  |  0 comments
There are records where one look at the cover art and without listening to a note, you know exactly what’s inside.
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