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Defining the artist inside

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Maybe the greatest subconscious human fear is that life is meaningless, or, as the late guru Alan Watts put it, that life is nothing...

Nicki Bluhm solo

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As a touring musician, Nicki Bluhm is used to spending more than half the year on the road — staying at different hotels in...

America at a crossroads and Bob Dylan on tour

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In 1975, the U.S. was at a crossroads. The Vietnam War was over, and Americans were more disillusioned than ever. Big cities out east,...

The last dance

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Dusk fell outside the Bustop Gentlemen’s Club on Broadway at the far edge of north Boulder. Skye, a Bustop regular dressed in a miniskirt...

The man, the myth, the legend

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Though they were incredibly gifted performers whose music still resonates and whose influences remain readily apparent today, you don’t see bumper stickers reading, “God Bless Janis Joplin.” Or Jimi Hendrix. Or Frank Sinatra. Or Dean Martin. The only such bumper ...

Whistling past a graveyard

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Living with her parents in their summer home in “the middle of nowhere forest in Sweden” was not what Siri Isaksson expected to be...

Boulder’s sweetheart gets ‘Sweeter’

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Has anyone here ever been in love?” Dafna Margalit asks a crowd.  It’s 2018, and Margalit, then a senior at Fairview High School, is about...

The joy of ‘Constant Sorrow’

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“The Soggy Bottom Boys have been steeped in old-timey material. We’re silly with it.” —Ulysses Everett McGill, O Brother, Where Art Thou? The gig was...

The dirty 30

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"I think I’m in Raleigh-Durham.” It’s 11 a.m. in North Carolina, but Todd Park Mohr sounds a little tired over the phone. No judgment, though:...

The ghosts of Manitou Springs

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Dead leaves swept gently across the footpaths in Crystal Valley Cemetery last Saturday evening, as if brushed away by a great, unseen hand. A crescent moon slipped silently behind the hills, and several large deer munched quietly on the short grass overlying Manitou ...

Giving Eugene Hütz a headache

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I thought my plan was clever — get Eugene Hütz on the phone and ask him about global politics. The ringleader of the gypsy punk...

Dave Mason is feelin’ … pretty good

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There aren’t many artists of Dave Mason’s vintage who can escape being defined by their past, and for most them — rockers who came...