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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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(May 4, 2017)
There's a lot that makes Humboldt stand out among the other 57 rather bleh counties in our great state. (OK, Mendocino is pretty cool. And Trinity has the Trinity River,...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(April 27, 2017)
Among the few American songwriters who have profoundly impacted the American Songbook as I hazily define it, most would agree Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan are somewhere toward the top...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(April 20, 2017)
Humboldt has its own complicated and multifaceted relationship with its best-known cash crop. Whether you are hip enough to call it cannabis or still call it "the dope," it's tough...
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The Setlist
/ By Andy Powell
(April 13, 2017)
We here in Humboldt are lucky. It's easy to forget but deep down we know that. We live in a rural part of the state that's hard to get to...
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