Mark Guarino
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Chicago artists score 34 Grammy nodsDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Chicago music artists received a total of 34 Grammy nominations Thursday when the Recording Academy announced contenders for its 50th award ceremony, set for broadcast f...
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The gift of song: Books, boxed sets and DVDs for audiophilesDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - There is always an oddity, a rehearsal take or an unheard anecdote that comes to light and is packaged for the first time every Christmas season. For the music fan, box ...
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Old Town School of Folk Music: 50 years and countyNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Folk music is one of Chicago's greatest and most-lasting musical traditions, starting in the 1950s when a group of academics and progressives held concerts, published so...
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Fogerty lends Creedence to Chicago Theatre crowdNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - John Fogerty songs have been and are heard everywhere, ever since he started recording them in 1969. Their familiar riffs and lyrics can be heard every day in bars, at a...
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Inspection of Dylan's life disjointed, uninspiringNov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - No one knows Bob Dylan, not even his biographers, a point well made in "I'm Not There," a film inspired by Dylan's life that's noble enough not to be a strict biography....
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KT Tunstall greets her Chicago audience with modest intentionsNov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - She may wield a guitar almost double her size on the cover of her new album, but in concert Saturday, KT Tunstall downplayed her inner rock goddess. In fact, she had ba...
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No one has done more to the mythologize Bob Dylan than he hasNov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - No one has added more to the mythologizing of Bob Dylan than Bob Dylan. In interviews, stage performances and a recent best-selling book, Dylan has goaded his obsessive ...
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Neil Young rich, varied but workmanlike in first of two showsNov 12, 2007 10:00 pm - The Chicago Theatre became a facsimile of Neil Young's legendary barn in Northern California, or at least a mythologized version of that workspace. Large canvases proppe...
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Jay-Z hasn't lost a beat in retirementNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - The chairman of the board came out of retirement early Thursday morning, but not to preside over a hostile takeover or to extinguish the flames of an accounting departm...
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Jay-Z comes out of retirement to promote new album and showNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - The chairman of the board pulled out of retirement early Thursday morning, but not to preside over a hostile takeover or to extinguish the flames of an accounting depar...