Tag: music
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Biking to a piece of the second day of Jazz Fest; April 24, 2026
On a Friday morning I left our Lower Garden District New Orleans condo around 9:30 AM to bicycle my usual seventeen mile loop around City Park. Afterward at about 11:00 AM I cycled directly to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for which Tootie and I had multi-day tickets. The previous day we had…
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Going Down to Hammond LA; January 30, 2026
I love “The Hammond Song.” I used to read Rolling Stone religiously and in 1979 when I was living in Houston TX I bought, on the magazine’s recommendation, the then-new debut album The Roches by three sisters from New Jersey. When I moved to New Orleans in my Renault Le Car in September 1981 I…
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Day trip to Erwin and Dunn, North Carolina; November 8, 2025
I have a weakness for all-female rock and roll bands. During the 1980’s the Go Go’s were certainly the best of the lot but I also listened to the Bangles. (Walk Like an Egyptian!) Tootie and I saw the Bangles once, at the outdoor Audubon Zoo venue in New Orleans about 1988. They broke up…
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Old US-1; Moncure NC to Sanford NC; February 9, 2025
A section of Old US-1 in central North Carolina is a genuine piece of Americana. Route 66 is more famous but US-1 has a similar story. US-1 was designated in the 1920’s as the original Maine to Florida highway. Twenty-five miles from my home in Chapel Hill NC I parked our old 2004 Honda at…
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