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Politicians on both sides love to use all of this music – Creedence and Sam & Dave and the rest – but they don’t know anything about it. Academics love to pick apart this music but they never felt a note of it. Because this music is an exchange. It’s why The Texas Tornados sound so good in a dancehall on a hot night in San Antonio and why Jimi Hendrix gets something out of “All Along the Watchtower” that Bob Dylan never did. This land, friends, was made for you and me.
It's little more than half a mile from New Hope Baptist Church to Prince Memorial CME. About 10:45 a.m. every Sunday, Pauline Thomas leaves New Hope, where she is a member, after Sunday school to play piano and lead the choir at Prince Memorial. This article first appeared in the July 2009 issue of Parker County Today.
Carlin said in an interview he was inspired to write about R.E.M. because of their political significance — what they stood for in the “Don’t Stop” ‘90s — and that’s what he’s done here. He’s written a book about the idea of R.E.M., which, of course, is what R.E.M. has always been so good at selling.
Curtis found a whole new sound in 1954 on East Belknap Street in Fort Worth while visiting an uncle, at a little store called Melody Shop Record Store, run by Lena Mae Ball. The store sold used 78s from jukeboxes in the back of the store for 10 cents. It was there Curtis heard music like he'd never known before. This article first appeared in the June 2009 issue of Parker County Today.
