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Home Away From Home – Rodeo Bar

June 8th 2006 in Spaces and Places

I can’t believe I’ve lived in New York city for almost 3 years and didn’t know about the Rodeo Bar (375 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (corner of 27th St & Third Ave, NYC). Great vibe (the bar is made of old Texas license plates), food, booze and free country-blugress-folk music from great artists nearly every night. I’ve found my new home. I wonder if my daughter will miss me?

Grandaddy Auction

In the wake of freak-folk band Grandaddy’s demise frontman Jason Lytle put some of his “most prized possessions” up for the bidding (one started on May 26, the other starts today). These include trucker hats, as well as sunglasses, books from his library (including Liberace’s biography!), copies of Grandaddy’s latest album Just Like the Fambly Cat with one-of-a-kind hand-drawn cover art, posters, pins, and a needlepoint cat pillow with the inscription “Meow Meow Meow”. Most of this stuff is autographed.

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WILLIE NELSON – The Complete Atlantic Sessions

Release Date – 06/20/2006

THE COMPLETE ATLANTIC SESSIONS contains remastered versions of Nelson’s two groundbreaking Atlantic releases — Shotgun Willie, his 1973 debut and “possibly his finest album ever” (All Music Guide), and Phases And Stages, his 1974 follow-up and “one of the great concept albums overall” (All Music Guide) — expanded with studio outtakes, alternate versions, and unreleased music. The third disc, Live at The Texas Opry House, features rare and unreleased performances recorded in Austin in [...]

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