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Fine Grind columns
 January 3, 2002 Songs of Everything: The Bottle Rockets |
 November 29, 2001 The Best CDs of 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 25, 2001 Same As the Old Boss The Who's Pete Townshend walks the fine line between elder statesman and geezer windbag. |
November 8, 2001 His Time Is Tight Jim Keltner has drummed for everybody from Bob Dylan to Steely Dan to Ry Cooder; he drives a lot of the better rock albums you own even when he goes unaccredited. His cunning discretion colors two of this year's better CDs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 4, 2001 Sorrowful AngelsThree of country music's finest singers all have new CDs out. But you couldn't get them arrested on country-and-western radio formats, nevermind pop. |
September 13, 2001 Lay Down Your Weary TuneBob Dylan's Love and Theft brings back the melody and humor of his best work | |||||||||||||||||||||
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August 29, 2001 Radio SweetheartsElvis Costello and Nick Lowe The yin and yang of 1977's New Wave crop, Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, each have new releases |
August 16, 2001 Car TunesVacation CDs: Kirsty MacColl, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Cachaito Lopez, The Blake Babies, Rodney Crowell, Shuggie Otis, The Yardbirds, The Buffalo Springfield | ||
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August 2, 2001 Too Much Monkey BusinessBurton Botches the Franchise |
July 19, 2001 Is There Sex After Death?HBO's Six Feet Under sexualizes death | ||
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July 5, 2001 Kicks and ChicksEurope's answer to American garage rock was a dizzying spiral of sounds |
June 7, 2001 Premium Blend Awards A semi-annual grab-bag of the gifted, the gory, good books with bad covers, club beats and abstract thought, and Ringo revelations. Bikers welcome. | ||
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May 24, 2001 Hoover's Greatest Hits James Ellroy's new gothic saga, The Cold Six Thousand, boils noir down to gristle |
May 10, 2001 Free At Last Napster outfoxes the law, and 50 million online users rejoice |
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April 26, 2001 The Band's Moondog Matinee Recently remastered with extra tracks, this album set a new standard for the scrappy tradition of rock covers |
April 12, 2001 The Rev. Bruce Springsteen and His E Street Choir Live in New York City (HBO) On the HBO special, Bruce Springsteen soups up his metaphors and rotates his band's tires for a set that rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth. | ||
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March 29, 2001 Charlie Rich's Behind Closed Doors (Epic Legacy) Charlie Rich's 1973 country breakthrough stokes a seductive irony on more than one level |
March 14, 2001 The Rutles Rule the World—Again Get up and go with the pre-Fab Four on a reissued DVD, which includes their Ché Stadium appearance | ||
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March 1, 2001 Eminem & Elton John: That's What Friends Are For Captain Fantastic, Slim Shady, and the Boy-Toy Scene Stealer |
February 15, 2001 Love in Vain: His audience tripping a thousand light years from home, Mick Jagger gets pulled down Altamont's black hole |
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