The Mixtape
Michael ElliottNews, reviews, and interviews of music makers and soul shakers.
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The Best of 1996
It was the era of irony, Gen X’s prime. We were in our mid-twenties, and some of the biggest rock bands were emoting a tad too much. Enter groups like Cake and the Bloodhound Gang, who were a reaction to (or seemed like it, anyway) the angs...
Country Musings: Storage Swag, Part One
John McEuen (of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band fame) sent me this photo, but I don’t remember when or why.
Dolly’s gone, and it’s hit me like it’s hit everyone else on Earth. I had so many thoughts swirling around in my head about country music’s...
The Swamp Fox and the King
Elvis wanted to play the blues.
It was February of 1970, and Tony Joe White found himself at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, sitting in the dressing room of the King of Rock’n’roll.1 By this point, Elvis was a walking, talking, strut...
Uncovered: On the Beach
Time for another installment of “Uncovered,” an occasional feature that investigates the similarities of album covers across genres and decades. It’s summertime, so to celebrate, we’re visiting album covers that depict salt life—laying out,...
Mick Jagger's ‘Wandering Spirit’
While everyone’s giving their take on ‘Foreign Tongues’ (find links to reviews at the end of this piece), I’m revisiting my favorite Jagger work outside of the Stones…
Use that wandering spirit of yours to subscribe to The Mixtape—it’s fre...
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