markrichardson.bsky.social
rock and pop music critic, @wsj, freelance elsewhere • former EIC @pitchfork • markrichardson.org • markrichardson.substack.com
👤 Joined on 18 August 2023
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@markrichardson.bsky.socialI made a deal with Marty Balin's dad who ran Matrix club in San Francisco - got possession of incredible 1969 Sandy Bull live tapes and got them issued on CD. raga psychedelic folk at its best including versions of Electric Blend, No Deposit/No Return Blues - album Title “Still Valentine’s Day 1969”
Show PostI read it forever ago, but it was my intro to Sandy Bull, and it stuck with me.
Show PostEver read the Jonathan Lethem novel Chronic City? It’s about a NYC music critic with chronic migraines who medicates by smoking heroic amounts of weed and obsessively listening to Sandy Bull records.
Show Post“There’s a two-bar section where he plays a phrase that sits precisely between eastern Kentucky and somewhere on the eastern rim of the Mediterranean, half this and half that, before switching to a jaunty and immediately identifiable North American folk melody.” Sandy Bull’s Inventions:
Show PostA feature on Markus Guentner in Postpunk.com highlighting his debut album, In Moll, & its 25th Anniversary Edition on @blackknoll.bsky.social Editions (double vinyl). Notes from former @pitchfork.com editor @markrichardson.bsky.social post-punk.com/markus-guent... #ambient #popambient #ambientdub
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