Favorite Articles of the Week
November 18th, 2016
By: Carlin "Rick" Smith
Sometimes as opposed to creating new content we feel it is good to recognize and promote some great pieces from our colleagues. To that end below are some of our favorite articles of the week. Take a read and subsequently a listen in some cases. Enjoy!
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"The music John creates was made to be captured in one take on one mike," David Chesky told me. "This is the way this music was meant to be heard since its inception. We are taking an aural photograph of a great genre of American music and preserving it for the next generation. John's entire band was of the highest level. Steve Martin, while best known for being a movie star, is a serious musician who has tremendous history with John, was a great addition to the vibe of the session, and was a pleasure to work with."
Read more at Recording of December 2016 John McEuen
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"Yes, according to prominent neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, the New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Plume/Penguin, 2007, footnote 1). However, the good doctor was quick to point out that none of his research directly looked at differences in sound quality. Still, Levitin said to me that "My intuition is that the better-quality audio will provide better health results because listeners won't be distracted by distortion or other signal-degrading artifacts."
Read more at Take Two Grateful Deads and Call Me in the Morning...
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"As his friend Leon Wieseltier wrote in a New York Times memorial, “Leonard had an unusual inflection for darkness: He found in it an occasion for uplift. His work is animated by a laudatory impulse, an unexpected and profoundly moving hunger to praise the world in full view of it. His attitude of acceptance was not founded on anything as cheap as happiness. … He lived in a weather of wisdom, which he created by seeking it rather than by finding it. … Leonard sang always as a sinner. He refused to describe sin as a failure or a disqualification. Sin was a condition of creatureliness, and his feeling for our creatureliness was boundless.”
Read more at Leonard Cohen: September 21st, 1934 - November 7th, 2016 RIP
