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Rick James RIP, Bitch: DJs Pay Homage to the Funky Onenew

Rick James was a junkie who banged black (and white) models, as did the Rolling Stones. What's more, he was utterly unrepentant about it all from glorious beginning to sorry downfall to pitiful end.
Houston Press  |  John Nova Lomax  |  08-23-2004  |  Music

Blackbird Fly: Americana the Way It Ought to Benew

The Houston native's music manages to sound both Depression-era vintage and strikingly contemporary, while her songs are full of pleas for good old-fashioned morphine and desperate failed romances, not to mention the talking starfish and singing mermaids that gambol and frolic on the beaches of her adopted San Francisco home.
Houston Press  |  John Nova Lomax  |  08-23-2004  |  Profiles & Interviews

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