The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(July 20, 2017)
It's not often that I'm impressed with the trajectory of humankind. I wonder if we've hit a plateau and just can't biologically evolve in any significant relation anymore to the...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(July 13, 2017)
Thursday The Humboldt Folklife Festival continues tonight at the Carlo Amphitheatre with "Bluegrass and Beyond" starting at 6 p.m. You'll hear from locals The Compost Mountain Boys and Clean Livin'...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(July 6, 2017)
Thursday You might want to start getting comfortable up in Blue Lake in the run up to the Humboldt Folklife Festival. Start off this evening at the Mad River Brewery...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(June 29, 2017)
I wasn't on top of my game enough to get in a column relevant to the other week's Unpopular Opinions theme but I thought, even though late, why wouldn't I...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(June 22, 2017)
Summertime is here, and we're all hoping the living will be easy. To make that possibility that much less certain, my wife and I decided to cut our children off...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(June 15, 2017)
As I wrote this column on Sunday evening in my "office" (a shed in our backyard) a serendipitous moment occurred. Over the occasional sounds of our dogs barking at absolutely...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(June 8, 2017)
Thursday Electric-acoustic "mayhem" are on the bill this evening at the Mad River Brewery Tap room in Blue Lake at 6 p.m. Returning to the outdoor stage is Kaptain Kirk's...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(June 1, 2017)
Where did "Southern Rock" come from? The easiest answer is "The South" but you already knew that. Things get a bit more complicated after that. With a measure of...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(May 25, 2017)
Technology giveth, and technology taketh away. I've been pondering this thought for a while now. I won't claim to be a fully out-of-the-closet Luddite, but compared to many — my...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(May 18, 2017)
My freshman year in high school, I'd hitch rides to school with my friend Cameron and his mother. Cameron and I would groggily listen to cassettes his older brother gave...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(May 11, 2017)
It's never easy nail down a music genre. As with many things ineffable, the more you describe them, the more elusive they seem. Much like quantum physics, the more microscopic...
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