That Magnificent Ghost

"It's the plan of most / To discover that magnificent ghost" -- Vic Chesnutt, "Sad Peter Pan"

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Increasingly Occasional

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Somehow happened upon this blog tonight and thought it was probably worth noting that content posted here probably will be very infrequent...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The Picketts, from The Rocket, August 1995

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Inspired by a photo that Miro Jugum posted of The Picketts doing an in-store at the long-gone Tower Records store on Mercer Street in Sea...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Deconstructing ELO

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By Peter Blackstock A confession, to begin with. The first record I ever reviewed – or, at least, attempted to review – was the Electr...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Don Walser article in The Rocket, March 1995

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[This was published in the late, great Seattle biweekly music publication The Rocket as a preview for a tw0-night stand at The Backstage fea...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Butch Hancock article in The Rocket (Seattle), January 1994

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By Peter Blackstock It’s kind of an eyesore from the outside, this humble cottage industry that Butch Hancock calls home, a few yards from t...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

JKutchma, the Five Fifths, and a Valentine

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You don't cover "My Funny Valentine" light-heartedly or off-handedly. It's not a happy-go-lucky love song, despite its tit...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Giant Sand's "Classico" with Vic Chesnutt & Henriette Sennevalt

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Well, this certainly needs to be posted here, of all places: Thanks to Howe for sharing it with us, and Bill Carter for creating it.
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Peter Blackstock
-- Music Writer, Austin American-Statesman.
-- Associate Editor, Independent Weekly (North Carolina Triangle), 2010-2013.
-- Co-editor, SXSW Scrapbook (published March 2011 by Essex Press via Univ of Texas Press; with Jason Cohen & Andy Smith).
-- Contributor, eMusic editorial (reviews & features).
-- Co-founder and co-editor of No Depression magazine, the foremost journalistic voice in American roots music from 1995 to 2009. (I have nothing to do with the present website of the same name, except for the stuff in the archives.)
-- Archivist, South By Southwest Music Conference, 1989-1997.
-- Music columnist and news/sports/features copy editor, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1991-2000.
-- Senior editor, The Rocket (Seattle music biweekly), 1994-1997.
-- Music columnist and news/sports/features copy editor, Austin American-Statesman, 1985-1991.
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