Jan 19, 2020
Jenny Mae - Runaway, 1995.
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Jenny Mae - Runaway, 1995.
Jenny Mae Leffel 1968-2017
Jenny Mae Leffel 1968-2017
Jenny Mae (Leffel) 1968-2017. “Why are you so angry?” She asked me that, repeatedly over and over through the years. Perhaps it was some of the unease that grew up around me when I was near her, as the jungle of her life, crowded everything out, grew wild around her and eventually choking the life out of her, but I would challenge her on this statement, in the end though—there was no agreement.…
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Christmas 2024. (for Jon Solomon's WPRB 25-Hour Holiday Show, thanks Jon.)
Every year Jon Solomon from Comedy Minus One Records and WPRB radio in Princeton, New Jersey plays holiday music/stories for 25 hours. Most years I write something and I need to thank Jon for getting it on as I turned it in just days before Christmas. I hope everyone a peaceful year, with lots of love, laughter and connection. We all need it. Christmas 2024. Fat snowflakes taking…
Runaround Sue circa 1977
This is a short excerpt from the book I have been working on for the past two years, extra special thanks to my editor Lisa Carver who has read every 75,000+ words and supplied me with suggestions, tweaks, edits and, most importantly, encouragement. Thanks Lisa. The book is about my mom but not about my mom, and is about me and not about me, about things that maybe existed and maybe didn’t. A…
Steve Albini: Records, Jerry Wick & Security
(all photos by the wonderful Jay Brown, check him out: https://www.jfotoman.com) I have a sanctuary. A place that protects me. Gives me solace. Security. Joy. It’s a sanctuary because it is sacred. My little secret but it isn’t a secret, it is everywhere, I think it is a secret because the relationship is intimate, it changes me, makes me feel whole or, perhaps at times, not as broken. If you…
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Christmas 2023. (also on Jon Solomon's WPRB 25-Hour X-Mas Show)
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My Mother Dancing.
A green cover that had the look of a well-played record, the ring of the round discs on the outside of it looked like the small scars of age, the two enclosed vinyl records sounded as if they had been stored in a coal mine, the songs crackly, skippy and almost faded from too many plays, a sound version of Black Lung disease. The songs sounded different from what was usually on our turntable; Jim…
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