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Articles by David Bowman

Fiona Apple Blossoms … Sonic Youth's Millennial Boom

by James Hunter and David Bowman
Nov. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Fiona Apple BlossomsIn 1996, amid talk of girl power and waifdom, a tiny 18-year-oldsinger-songwrite  read more »

All the Old Dudes (And One Old Crow)

by David Bowman
Oct. 10th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Avenue B , Iggy Pop (Virgin/America).Hours … , David Bowie (Virgin/America).  read more »

Smoldering Patti Smith Burns Through Bland Bio

by David Bowman
Oct. 10th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Patti Smith: An Unauthorized Biography , by Victor Bockris and Roberta Bayley.  read more »

Got Guitar? Richard Thompson Shoots Out the Lights Again

by David Bowman
Sep. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Mock Tudor , Richard Thompson (Capitol).The time: July 19, 1999 (the middle of the heat wave).  read more »

Nixon Without Hindsight: Determined, Creepy, Durable

by David Bowman
Aug. 8th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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The Contender: Richard Nixon, The Congress Years, 1946-1952 , by Irwin F. Gellman.  read more »

The Year of the Wolf-Los Lobos and Family

by David Bowman
Aug. 8th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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This Time , Los Lobos (Hollywood Records).Dose , Latin Playboys (Atlantic).  read more »

Bonus Tracks Can't Sink Oar - Beck, Tom Waits Sing in Praise

by David Bowman
Jul. 18th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Oar . Skip Spence. Sundazed.More Oar: A Tribute to the Alexander (Skip) Spence Album .  read more »

Half-Empty and Half-Full: Van Zandt and George Jones

by David Bowman
Jul. 11th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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A Far Cry From Dead. Townes Van Zandt. Arista.Cold Hard Truth. George Jones. Asylum.  read more »

Viva Chrissie Hynde and Her Shimmery New Tunes

by David Bowman
Jun. 20th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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In the song "Popstar," 48-year-old Chrissie Hynde is a well-worn pop star addressing the jerky ex w  read more »

Tom Petty, Doris Day and the Art of Being Dumb

by David Bowman
May. 23rd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Good pop music is usually gloriously dumb. "I love you, yeah-yeah-yeah" (the Beatles).  read more »

Big Weird Texan Terry Allen Seeks Salvation in Salivation

by David Bowman
May. 9th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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On the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 13th Street, a giant Fiberglas iguana used to peer down from  read more »

Tom Waits Goes Hog Wild on Mule Variations

by David Bowman
Apr. 25th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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After cooling his heels for six years, Tom Waits has returned.  read more »

Looking Back at Lou Reed's Blue Period

by David Bowman
Mar. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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It's just a cultural quirk that Lou Reed's "official" photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, is a  read more »

Listen Up, Pilgrim: Steve Earle Tells It on The Mountain

by David Bowman
Feb. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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For a few years now, Steve Earle has threatened to abandon his electric neo-Woody Guthrie musical ob  read more »

Old Farts With Axes to Grind: Richards Chugs, Others Unplug

by David Bowman
Jan. 10th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Combine Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock performance of "The Star Spangled Banner" with young Tom Cruise pla  read more »

Gillian Welch Raises Hell … Quietly

by David Bowman
Aug. 23rd, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Gillian Welch's second release, Hell Among the Yearlings (Almo Sounds), is the most spare and lovely  read more »

Ho, Jack, Maynard and Me: Steve Earle Talks (and Talks)

by David Bowman
Jul. 19th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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When he arrived on the scene in 1986, Steve Earle was lauded as a neo-Outlaw hillbilly singer (see W  read more »

He Who Wears Failure Shoes Succeeds

by David Bowman
Jun. 28th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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The excerpt from Jonathan Franzen's forthcoming third novel that appears in the spring issue of Conj  read more »