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Kristi Wooten

The Bowie Brigade

Atlanta’s Bowie Parade, in honor of David Bowie, who died January 10, 2016. Photo by Kristi York Wooten #Atlanta #DavidBowie #featured...

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Elvis Costello's Hardcover Rock: Why Music Memoirs Matter

THIS Christmas, booksellers are featuring several memoirs by rock musicians in their product queues. The authors are not all household...

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The Endless Dance: Spending My Birthday With Spandau Ballet

A woman checks my ID at ATL TSA and hands me my driver’s license. “Make it a good one,” she says. I walk to T Gates and fill my water...

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U2's Age Against the Machine

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST Many of today’s top touring artists, including Taylor Swift, One Direction, the Rolling Stones,...

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Why We Love Brian Wilson's Melodies (and Matzo Ball Soup)

After seeing the new movie, Love & Mercy, we’ll never hear The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” the same way again. During a scene in which...

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World Party on Tour: Long Live Rainbows and Revolutions

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Karl Wallinger is sitting on the running board of his tour van and smoking a cigarette. He...

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Paul Weller: Apollo Landing

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST THE Apollo Theatre’s place in music history dates from 1914, when the building opened as a...

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In a Big Country, Reasons to Stay Alive

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST It may surprise music fans of a certain age to know that various members of Big Country,...

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John Mellencamp Tackles Race, Politics in New Album

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Just because he’s riffed his way into our collective consciousness with no-frills all-American rock...