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LOST TREASURES DEWEY MARTIN & MEDICINE BALL “Dewey Martin & Medicine Ball” By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] Like a lot of pop fans, I like to follow the post-break-up careers of the members of my favorite bands. Often, this is easy to do, as it was in the ’70s when the solo Beatles were regularly […]

LOST TREASURES THE JOLT “The Jolt” By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”]   Most movements in the history of pop run the gamut in terms of the quality of the music. There are great garage bands and fairly awful ones. British psych-pop embraces bands that created transcendent music and bands that produced only murky whimsy. I […]

JANGLE ON! SEPTEMBER by Eric Sorensen [linebreak style=”simple”] The mid-Atlantic climate gave us summer in reverse – treating us to some mild, dry days in August and now some very hot and muggy days in early September.  The low humidity and an evening breeze made sitting outdoors for a Shenandoah Run (a nine-person folk ensemble […]