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There is no better early morning music than Red Headed Stranger

Posted on September 20, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I’m beginning to think all the best Wikipedia entries are about pop music. Red Headed Stranger is a 1975 album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelson. ...

Culture/Music

RIP Charlie Haden

Posted on July 15, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

“No one wants to be remembered most for what they did at 22.” But if at that tender age you get the chance to change musical history with the Ornette Coleman Ba...

Brains and Behavior/Music/Psychiatry/Readings/Writing

John Jeremiah Sullivan Versus the Blues Hunter

Posted on May 22, 2014 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

I spent last evening utterly absorbed in John Jeremiah Sullivan’s account of his search for two long-dead blues singers, “The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie,...

Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Music

How Walking Creates Music

Posted on May 19, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Austin Kleon, who’s been playing Erik Satie on the piano a lot lately, has a nice post on this rather eccentric composer. It leads with a bit about a favo...

Brains and Behavior/Culture/Music/Side Tracks

Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, and Time’s Vain Delusions

Posted on March 5, 2014 by David Dobbs / 5 Comments

A couple weeks ago I found myself staring at an undersized image on my iPhone: the wee tiny cover of Neil Young’s 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps, which I was list...

Culture/Music

Laurie Anderson Bids Farewell to Lou Reed

Posted on November 11, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

As it turned out, Lou and I didnt live far from each other in New York, and after the festival Lou suggested getting together. I think he liked it when I said, ...

Culture/Writing

Play That F**king Little Sixteenth Note (NC Moving Party Track 5)

Posted on June 3, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Below find #5 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, posted as I moved the blog her...

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Gimme Johann, Gimme Jimmy: Music to Write By

Posted on November 16, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

What do writers listen to while they write? Over at NeuroTribes, where the splendid Steve Silberman has gathered Music to Write By: 10 Top Authors Share Their S...

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Happy Birthday, Jerry Garcia

Posted on August 6, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

For Steve Silberman and Richard Ober. Garcia would have been 70 today, had he withstood the ravages he himself and the times inflicted on him. I’ve never ...

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“Just Give Me Som Funky Shit Footage”: Neil Young Plays A Glasgow Sidewalk

Posted on February 29, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Neil Young – Old Laughing Lady (1976) by Julos77 This incredibly fantastic footage comes via the irreplaceable Open Culture: 1976, and Neil Young, greeted...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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