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Frank Gutch Jr: The Pac Northwest— Not Just The Raiders, Sonics, and Wailers; and Notes, Notes and More Notes

Posted in Opinion with tags Alistaire Cooke, Brady Earnhart, Clara-Nova, DBAWIS, dixie bee-liners, Dominique Meyer, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ed Daugherty, EJD Enterprises, Erin Lunsford & The Wildfire, Frank Gutch Jr., I Draw Slow, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jerry Dennon, jim colegrove, Joseph Darbonne, Laurie Biagini, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Live Five, Lost Leaders, Melissa Payne, Morning Reign, Moses Lake, Munro Melano, music, music videos, Omnibus, Paige Anderson & the Fearless Kin, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Records, segarini, Seventh Fire Records, Sydney Wayser, The Bards, The Critters, The Flamethrowers, The Heirs, The Moguls, The Sonics, The Viceroys, The Wailers, Wes Race on June 24, 2014 by segarini

One thing about history. Given enough time, it is a shadow of its former self. No matter what happens, importance of virtually everything is either magnified or diminished depending upon a number of factors. By the time it has been filtered over the years, it is not even remotely what it started out to be. The Twenties obviously weren’t all Gatsby and The Thirties weren’t all dust bowl and depression. There was so much more than the War (that would be of the Second World variety, sports fans) and recovery from to the Forties and if the US had lived the Fifties like Hollywood said, we would have fought like hell to stay there. Of course, by the time it got to us, it was Cliff’s Notes all over again.

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Frank Gutch Jr: Flotsam and Jetsam, plus Notes…..

Posted in Opinion with tags Amanda Anne Platt, Artistic Records, Chloe Albert, Corvallis High School Band, Country artists, Cruisin', DBAWIS, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drew Gibson, Dublin Bottling Works, Frank Gutch Jr., H. Owen Reed, Hank Williams, History of Country Music, Homegrown, Indie Artists, Indie Music, KGB, Kim Grant, Lee Cash, Little Lonely, Motown Story, music, Music Radio, music videos, Picture The Ocean, Records, Spooky Tooth, The Critters, The Honeycutters, The Weaver Twins, The Winterpills., Tops Records, Turnstyled Junkpiled, Zoe Muth on April 1, 2014 by segarini

That’s right, sports fans, I have once again rammed the ol’ cranium up against the proverbial brick wall. Four good starts on this week’s column and nothing to really show except four three-paragraph dead ends, at least for now. And deadline looms. What to do, what to do… After much thought (not really), I have decided to pack together a whole string of odds and ends for you to pick through, if you so desire— flotsam and jetsam, as it were. Ideas not long enough for a column, musical bits and pieces, brain farts and the like. Indeed, I looked up the term “flotsam and jetsam” on thefreedictionary.com just to make sure that I had the term right and, for once, I did. “Useless or discarded objects,” it said. “Odds and ends.” Well, I hope I stay away from the former, but the latter seems to fit. Just remember— no overlying theme. Whatever comes to (my) mind.