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The other side of the tracks.

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A surprise hole in the sole of your shoe is no match against some super glue and electric tape.

Anyway, it might be time for new sneakers.

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Bob Dylan & the Band - Before the Flood

This afternoon, I finally got a change to watch Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, and that gave me the itch to pull this one off the shelf. Live in 1974, some people love this album, other people ... well I don't agree with those people, I guess.

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It's hot out there, but we had a nice morning.

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Some words to live by:

Sharpen your teeth, my darlings Sharpen your minds Take a finger if the hand feeds you shit Take one scalp at a time

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John Lennon - "You Are Here"

I'm just about a year late on this remix of Mind Games, don't mind me.

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Today is apparently International Left Handed Day, or some other similarly fake holiday since everything is/has a day now.

Anyway, here’s to everyone else who’s had to navigate a world of right-handed guitars in an effort to find some cool ones.

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Wunderhorse - "The Rope"

Here's a relatively recent discovery that I've been playing a lot lately. Enjoy (or don't, it's cool, everyone's different).

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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

— Joshua Homme.

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The Beatles - "Cry Baby Cry"

Apologies for all the Beatles stuff lately, but this is just hitting where I need it to hit lately.

"Can you take me back where I came from? Can you take me back?"

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It’s a hard life, huh buddy.

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Terry Reid - "Dean"

Easily the most overlooked powerhouse of the British blues movement in the late 1960s/early '70s. Save for a couple of bad contracts and he would've been as well-known as any singer of that era. He was a sneaky nasty guitarist, too.

We lost Terry Reid the other day. It's a huge, huge loss. Check out River or his self-titled Terry Reid, or the Superlungs compilation if you're into this.

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The Beatles - Hey Jude

Here’s a record I’ve been listening to since I was at least five years old. I brought it up to my room as a teenager when I got my first turntable and here it is all these years later, still.

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While I'm thinking about the Beatles... I usually pick an album and listen to that nonstop for a day or so, and then move on to a different record. But when I want to mix it up, I've had this one ready for a long time. And I just recreated it in Spotify, in case you're interested.

The full running order:

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When things are not-quite-right, the correct answer is always the Beatles.

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July is just about in the books. And so, here's what it looked like in calendar form.

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Here we see an overheated but happy little dude, waiting patiently to cross the street.