Ted Burke:LIKE IT OR NOT

  RELEASED IN 1967, THE FOURTH BYRDS ALBUM YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY SAW THE BAND SAW THE BAND HAVING TO COMMIT ITSELF TO RELEASE A RECORD AFTER THE RECENT LOSS OF THEIR PRINCIPLE AND PROLIFIC ...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2024/05/released-in-1967-byrds-fourth-album.html

Grande Ballroom photo by Charlie Auringer JOHN SINCLAIR, A MOTOR CITY HIPPIE ACTIVIST, FOUNDER OF THE AWKWARDLY NAMED WHITE PANTHER PARTY AND MANAGER OF DETROIT BAND OR TWO IN THE MID TO LATE...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2024/05/the-last-of-mc5-is-gone.html

 Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson -- Lori Bell Quartet IT’S MORE A CASE OF SLIPPING INTO A COMFY, LOOSE-FITTING GARMENT THAN IT IS STUDYING LORI BELL’S LATEST RELEASE, RECORDA ME:...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2024/03/sublime-joe-henderson-tribute-from-lori.html

THERE CONTINUES TO THIS  DAY, SINCE IT'S RELEASE AS A SINGLE IN 1965, A DEBATE, SOMETIMES HOT AND OTHER TIMES MERELY A SIMMER, AS TO HOW SUCCESSFUL THE BEATLES THE "NOWHERE MAN" WAS IN ITS DA...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/11/the-failure-of-nowhere-man.html

DWIGHT TWILLEY, UNDERAPPRECIATED AND (SIGH) GONE TOO SOON, RIP. I REVIEWED HIS SINGLE “I’M ON FIRE” AND HIS SECOND ALBUM “TWILLEY DON’T MIND” IN THE 70S AND ALWAYS WONDERED AT THE TIM...

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  STEELY DAN WAS CALLED “INSUFFERABLY PERFECTIONIST” IN A HEADLINE FROM A RECENT ATLANTIC ESSAY DISCUSSING THE RENEWED INTEREST IN THE BAND'S WORK.  IT WOULD BE AN APT DESCRIPTION FOR T...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/11/steely-dan.html

  There are books that have nothing to do with reading but are only about other books lost in the marsh when the land fill finally sank after generations of having its soil stolen by viciou...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/10/books.html

  There was a time when, halfway through my teen years with two years worth of blues harmonica wood- shedding behind me, I felt inferior for reasons maybe obvious, that I didn’t feel my c...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/10/short-rants-from-near-past-mostly-about.html

  Sad day for poetry. 2020 Nobel Prize winner for Literature Louise Gluck (pronounced "Glick”), the first America non-songwriting poet to garner the award since T.S. Eliot in 1948. Bob Dyl...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/10/louise-gluck-rip.html

I enjoyed Ridley Scott's Aliens prequel Prometheus, proposed as a first step in the franchise that would establish the beginnings of this sci-fi saga up to the point where we first meet the fab...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/10/random-film-notes-rediscovered.html

  I’ve been a defender of the Stones’ late career work, admitting right off that nothing they can do will equal their best efforts of decades passed. However, the albums of more recent y...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/09/not-holding-my-breath.html

  Given the choice between listening to rock critics wax endlessly on garage-centric one-shot wonders who emerged from Decatur suburbs and wine critics swanning about a particular pour’s pr...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/09/its-all-about-choices.html

Another typing lesson begins, by which I mean that it's not really a typing lesson I'm talking about, but rather an exercise to become re-acquainted with the habit of mind and task to sit at the ...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/08/typing-lesson-3.html

  Here we are again, gathered in a paragraph next to a black and white photograph of a combination check-cashing service and liquor store in the testier blocks of the beach area, writing wor...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/08/typing-lesson-2.html

  Robbie Robertson was a rare bird, and it’s not likely we’ll see a comparable talent again in most of our lifetimes. As a writer, he drew from a deep and flavorful stream of musical sty...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/08/robbie-robertson-rip-lead-guitarist-and.html

Costello is wonderful at the heightened awareness in the ways he presents his details, his comic touches, A beautiful agent who still receives alimony checks from her smitten ex-husband carries...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/08/some-august-beach-reading.html

  The harmonies of the fabled Tremeloes stood out in a crowded field of 60s Brit Pop bands who were notable for their vocal arrangements. As we see here, the harmonies decorate, embellish, an...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/08/comments-from-listening-booth.html

  In future years, the younger folks might be nostalgic as they reminisce about the supposed fun and convenience of Horton Plaza before it eventually became a dead mall now being repurposed....

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/08/horton-plaza-as-it-was.html

 Irony isn't dead. In  fact, it's a living yet intangible part of the odd vibes that abound after the disasters of the worst human assumptions being acted upon. It very much feels like some smi...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/07/turn-down-that-crap.html

BARRY ALFONSO In Santee, “drying the cat by hand” means taking a single woman out to dinner, saying flattering things to her, picking up the check and then giving her the phone number of yo...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/07/i-am-tired-of-drying-cat-by-hand.html

  Some years ago, that is, many years ago when I started this blog, I had the intention of writing an annual report on the state of my sobriety as each anniversary came and went. Something l...

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 So in the nineties I was in a men's intimacy group, a number of sober guys who wanted to share personal matters, issues, confliction, and compulsions with other sober men on level much deeper a...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/07/recovery-of-baser-nature.html

  Gadfly Patrick Marlborough offered something of a defense of Australian quasi-comedian Hannah Gadsby's critical and creaky post-feminist takedown of Picasso with a piece claiming to detail ...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/06/pablomatic-for-people.html

  At last, we come to the absolute end of HBO's family / business drama Succession and for that, ending all storylines after the series' fourth season, is a favor that cannot be understated...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/05/succession-ends-it.html

This is a concert video of the late jazz guitar master Larry Coryell and the amazing Polish jazz-fusion violinist, originally released on VHS I believe, that hasn't been released as a stand-alone...

https://www.ted-burke.com/2023/05/short-notes-on-old-albums-larry-coryell.html