Growing up in Dallas, there was really only one place I could buy weird music. It was Bill's Records and Tapes - two warehouse-sized rooms of the most dizzying disarray of media I've ever been lucky enough to browse. It was there I bought my first Foetus CD, my first Coil tape, and eventually my first slab of vinyl, before I even owned a record player. And if I wanted to pick up some late-80's Depeche Mode 1" pins, a Lollapalooza '95 t-shirt, or maybe even a tube of vintage but still minty MC Hammer toothpaste, well, I could do that too. When I went back for a visit last year I was greeted by huge handwritten signs on neon posterboard that said Bill was moving to a smaller location ...
July, 2007
Back in 2001, the broadcast network evening shows weren't quite so fast to jump on President Bill Clinton's Inauguration Day morning pardon of Marc Rich, a fugitive from justice over fraud and tax evasion, who was hiding overseas and whose ex-wife was a big Democratic contributor. ABC's World News got to it a day later, but it took the NBC Nightly News another day. The CBS Evening News didn't bother reporting it until the Thursday after Clinton's Saturday morning action -- and then Dan Rather framed it as another instance of Clinton being victimized by unrelenting critics who wouldn't let go even after he left office: “Critics of former President Clinton are going beyond the very end. They're raising new questions about one of the end of term pardons President ...
MP3:
01. Thurl Ravenscroft and Roberta Lee - Wing Ding Ding (1:57)
02. Thurl Ravenscroft and Roberta Lee - You Wanna Talk About Texas (1:51)
03. The Sky Boys - Mad Baby Mad (2:46)
04. The Sky Boys - Never Doubt My Love (2:40)
05. Big John and the Buzzards - Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash (2:16)
06. Big John and the Buzzards - Oop Shoop (2:12)
07. Big John and the Buzzards - Mean Woman (2:47)
08. Big John and the Buzzards - Hey, Little Girl (2:49)
09. Thurl Ravenscroft - Oh, You Sweet One (2:15)
10. Thurl Ravenscroft - I Ain't Afraid (2:14)
11. The Elliott Brothers (Lloyd and Bill) ...
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