Dave is Writing:
Friday, August 10th, 2012
by Dave Marsh and Danny Alexander You might wonder, for good reason, why we are writing about Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball five months after its release. Some of the reasons have been personal. But there are better reasons why we’re speaking up now, and speaking in the way that we are. Part of it is that Read more...
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Danny Alexander, Dave Marsh, Death to My Hometown, Easy Money, Jack of All Trades, Land of Hope and Dreams, music and politics, Rock & Rap Confidential, Rocky Ground, Shackled and Drawn, This Depression, We Are Alive, We Take Care of Our Own, Wrecking Ball, Wrecking Ball song, You Got It
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Monday, April 16th, 2012
You probably never knew my friend Kathy Rich. You really missed something. A good way to find out what is to read Margalit Fox’s obituary for her in the April 7 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/health/katherine-russell-rich-who-wrote-of-cancer-fight-dies-at-56.html?hpw). I’d bet all my socks that Fox knew Kathy, partly because she captures so much that’s crucial about her and Read more...
Tags: cancer survival, Dreaming in Hindi, Kathy Rich, life and death, The Red Devil, writing, young adults cancer
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
I wrote this for Rock & Rap Confidential, the (now online) newsletter about music and politics I’ve edited with Lee Ballinger for thirty years–we started right about this time of year, too, I think. I’ve said very little at RRC in recent months, and this topic (suggested by Lee) seems a good place to get Read more...
Tags: alejandro escovedo, Bruce Springsteen, David Alvarez, Eliza Gilkyson, Jimmy LaFave, Joe Ely, Juanes, Kiss, Lester Bangs, Little Richard, Low Anthem, Rock and Rap Confidential, RRC, Smokey Robinson, Steve Earle, SXSW, The Animals, Woody Guthrie, Wrecking Ball album
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Dear Kristen, Can I tell you a secret? It’s ridiculous but I didn’t even know it was a secret until I heard Lady GaGa’s “Hair” this morning and then I realized that I’d kept it even from myself. In my ears, it’s a record where I always find you. “I’ve had enough, this is my Read more...
Tags: cancer, chemotherapy, children, children and cancer, death, hair, Kristen Ann Carr, Kristen Carr, Lady GaGa, parents, parents and cancer
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Clarence Clemons, said both my daughter and Bruce Springsteen this week, passed through his life doing exactly what he wanted to do. Bruce said the rest, which amounted to admitting that you can’t really do that, and the result of trying to is confusion and turbulence and discomfort and illusion. Except when it works. Then Read more...
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and race, Clarence Clemons, E Street Band, Race and music, white people and racism, white supremacy
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
May 29, 2011 on “Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams.”
Tags: Annie Barrows, Barack Obama, Bob Dylan, Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution, Dave Marsh, David Deutschman, Dick Nichols, Dignity -Bob Dylan, Frank Joyce, Gil Scott-Heron, Helen Yaffe, Indignados, I’m New Here, Jamie xx, Jonathan Franzen, Kevin Gray, Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams, Mary Ann Shaffer, Michael Kamen, The Che Guevara Reader, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Yip Harburg
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
[This item appeared in April at the Holler If You Hear Me website: www.hollerif.blogspot.com I added a little here.] Somebody asked if Robert Johnson ever got to Chicago. I looked for the fact in a few places and then realized that what I was going to get was somebody’s version but that it was more Read more...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Every year, on January 3–the anniversary of her death at age 21, from a very rare cancer, retroperitoneal sarcoma– I write my daughter Kristen a letter. This is the 18th. The others are available if you would like to see them. Thank you for the attention you might give this. If you would like to Read more...
Tags: cancer and young adults, death of children, fathers and daughters, Kristen Ann Carr, Kristen Ann Carr Fund, sarcoma
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010
From my friends Joanne Landy and Thomas Harrison, co-directors of Campaign for Peace and Democracy. I hope you will join us in this simple but meaningful activity. And let’s all add a New Year’s resolution for our too often bloodthirsty nation: End the war! And don’t start any new ones. Thanks for all of you Read more...
Tags: Afghanistan, end the war, New Year's activities, peace
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