The Current Music Blog: October 12, 2006 Archive

The Buffering Stream: A Pretty Good Start to The Day

Posted at 7:00 AM on October 12, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

The True Hero of Middle Earth: Billbo Braggins

Posted at 8:00 AM on October 12, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (1 Comments)

Hurray! Billy Bragg has just published a book and a box set. The former is a polemic on behalf of "patriotic progressivism" and the latter is... well, it's also a polemic about patriotic progressivism, but in the form you've come to know and love: three latter-career albums, scads of remastered singles, and yards of concert footage.

For our part, we had our hearts permanently broken by "Levi Stubb's Tears,"
"The Saturday Boy," and "St. Swithin's Day"--all from the earliest albums when Billy had only his guitar and his microphone. (We typically embrace "early albums" and try to preserve them forever in the amber of our memory; we realize there is definitely something wrong with us.)

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