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Happy Birthday Mr. Richards, Your Ngrams Look Good

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Google Labs' "ngram viewer" instantly quantifies literary references in its massive digital library

Google Labs recently unveiled Ngrams, a chart that displays the number of times a term has appeared in literature digitized in the Google Books library. Based on their massive collection, the project has produced informative results for Freud, Darwin and other […]

Keith Richards' "Life" – It's the Song, Not the Singer

Mr. Richards shows his sensitive side in "Life."

Keith Richards, my hero. The songs, the guitars, the money, the girls, the cars, houses in the islands, pharmaceutical-quality drugs in death-defying quantities. Throughout, he keeps writing great songs. He lives a seemingly simple life, with simple chord sequences played better than anyone. To paraphrase Julia […]

Suzanne Vega and Peter Gabriel Release Cover Albums

Peter Gabriel by Nadav Kandar

The TV shows American Idol and Glee have made cover songs a greater focal point for the music business than ever, even including songwriting-publishing’s peak years in the early recording era. Of course, the histrionics of the Idol contestants and the high school kids of Glee can’t match a real […]

Muddy Waters Comes to Life in Cadillac Records

The historic meeting of Little Walter and Muddy Waters in Cadillac Records

I’m a big Muddy Waters fan, but having only ever seen him on tv or movies and read about him in books, I was really thrilled to see Jeffrey Wright make come to life in Cadillac Records. The hard part is recreating […]

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Happy Birthday Mr. Richards, Your Ngrams Look Good

Keith Richards' "Life" – It's the Song, Not the Singer

Suzanne Vega and Peter Gabriel Release Cover Albums

Muddy Waters Comes to Life in Cadillac Records

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