The Back Room Blog
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Ronnie Wood and Mick Taylor Honor Jimmy Reed at The Cutting Room
Ronnie Wood and Mick Taylor perform at the Cutting Room Saturday, November 9, 2013. Copyright © Sasha Murray “This is… Read More
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Bobby Parker 1937-2013
Bobby Parker Copyright © Fernando Sandoval. All Rights Reserved. Washington’s own Bobby Parker passed on last week. Bobby made a… Read More
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JFK, Elvis, and Vanity Fair
The November issue of Vanity Fair has an excellent story by James Wolcott about the “avalanche of books” marking the… Read More
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Lou Reed, 1942-2013
Transformer, 1972. Photograph by Mick Rock. Read More
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Sunshine Superman, the NFL, Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and RRHF
I was watching the Washington Redskins-Dallas Cowboys game Sunday night and was pleased to hear NBC use Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman”… Read More
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Andy Warhol Schlepped Here… I Slept There Too!
I really enjoyed the New York Times story on photographer Chris Makos on October 3. Makos has had seven one-person… Read More
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The Shutdown Can’t Stop Elvis
“Elvis Presley Jump” Copyright © Alfred Wertheimer. All Rights Reserved. There’s a big buzz around the National Portrait Gallery exhibition… Read More
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Jackie Lomax 1944-2013
Jackie Lomax in 1963. Copyright © Astrid Kirchherr. All Rights Reserved. On September 13 Liverpool Merseybeat musician Jackie Lomax passed… Read More
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Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott, and His Mom Philomena
Last month I visited Phil Lynott’s mother, Philomena, who wrote the biography My Boy: The Philip Lynott Story. On the… Read More
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The Kingdom… County Kerry, Ireland
The Old Church, Chlocháin by Deirdre Lynch In August I returned to Ireland from Holland and spent a week in… Read More
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