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A Talk with Julie Gold

on August 5th, 2012 in Interviews by | Comments Off on A Talk with Julie Gold

I first met Julie Gold in 1979. I’d been doing A&R for Arista Records for about a year and although we were on opposite sides of the desk, we were more alike than different: a couple of twenty-three year old music-loving kids from Philly trying to make it in New…

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Rosanne Cash

on July 16th, 2012 in Music, Reviews by | Comments Off on Rosanne Cash

Twice in the early 90s, I went to the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY for a songwriting workshop with Rosanne Cash. It was a non-juried event, meaning the first dozen people to call in their credit cards got to spend five days sitting in a circle, trying our stuff out…

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