Tag Archives: Otis Redding

Protecting Pop’s Pilloried Plagiarists

It’s the sincerest form of flattery, and it’s not going away, but imitation as a means of creation does not enjoy the acceptance it once did. What once was homage is now plagiarism. Guest Weekling Charlie Clissitt goes to bat for practitioners of the age-old art of looking over the shoulders of giants. Continue reading

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Sunday Sermon – Three Songs

“..And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the merging of image and text defining a new form of communication should be killed…” Continue reading

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Soul Seduction – The Bar-Kays

They sang in churches, played on street corners, in gin joints. They did it for you and they did it for me. They did it because music ran in their veins. These are the forgotten stories of soul music’s swinging past Continue reading

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