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Genius Guide to Jazz

The Leon Redbone Suite for Guitar and Genius in B-flat, Part II

Read "The Leon Redbone Suite for Guitar and Genius in B-flat, Part II" reviewed by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius

Missed Part I of “Suite for Guitar and Genius in B-flat?" Click here.II. Rondo On Sunday, February 9th, your Own Personal Genius pointed the new Geniusmobile west and headed to Charlottesville to enjoy a live performance by this month's Genius Guide subject, Leon Redbone. And try as I might, I just could not work the word “Genius" into that last sentence any more times. I have been studying steganography, though, insinuating gags into the HTML of this article ...

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Genius Guide to Jazz

The Leon Redbone Suite for Guitar and Genius in B-Flat. Part I

Read "The Leon Redbone Suite for Guitar and Genius in B-Flat. Part I" reviewed by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius

I. Prelude If anyone ever decides to get together a Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for the Current State of American Pop Culture, I get dibs on Pestilence. Or possibly Death, depending on which one is likeliest to get more leg. And I invite Leon Redbone to saddle up next to me as we cut a bloody swath through the barren and useless hinterlands of creatively bankrupt reality TV, soulless and bland corporate top 40 music, hyper-accelerated fads that--thanks to ...

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Album Review

Leon Redbone: Any Time

Read "Any Time" reviewed by Alan Jones

by Alan Jones

Do you remember the first time you heard Leon Redbone? I was six years old, elbows at the edge of my parents’ bed, hands propping up my chin. Saturday Night Live was an occasional family ritual. At such a simple age I was partial to Mr. Bill, Land Shark, and of course, the musical guests. I remember when they announced Leon Redbone (was it Buck Henry? Charles Grodin?). Leon had all the facets of a common cartoon character; the gag ...

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