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The Poor Person's Half-Baked Internet Version of
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004
Mickey Hart, Paul Bresnick (editor)
October 2004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction : for the love of music
Jake Leg
The last hustle
Five nights, five karaoke bars
Beat at their own game
I think I'm going to hell
Keepin' it unreal
The soul of blind Willie Johnson
Remains of the day-O
Johnny Cash, 1932-2003 : The man in black - and other colors
Sex, heartbreak and blue suede
Let us now kill white elephants
Emo : where the girls aren't
The mechanical muse
Following the valley road to the homeplace of American music
Hip-hop's holy trinity
Wild is the wind
6,557 miles to nowhere
Hip-hop intellectuals
69 (years of) love songs
Same shabby dress : the legacy of little Miss Cornshucks
Branded man
The tortured soul of Marvin Gaye and R. Kelly
Rock 101
Eminem : the new white Negro
Willie Nelson at 70
Dungeon family tree
Stevie Wonder
Big world
The party at Pou Corner
Fate and a jukebox
Musical masala
The mystery of Lauryn Hill