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    <title>Queen of the Road</title>
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        For the first time in six years, Nanci Griffith performs in Florida.&nbsp;...
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      Friday night, when Nanci Griffith summons her pale skies, chunks of moon and mountains of sorrow to the stage at Jannus Landing and breathes her special whiskey bent into the hidden angels, endless highways and echoing memories that haunt her music, something about downtown St. Petersburg may well end up immortalized in future song. Jeff the downtown fiddler; that cranky guy who sells smoothies; suave Emmanuel at the Garden; Shanna, the world&#39;s most beautiful homeless girl -- somebody somehow may
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        Dan Hicks &amp; His Hot Licks return with a new album of Selected Shorts....
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      From out in the south part of Northern California, that sweatered land of cool sunshine and moony evenings where he moved from Arkansas at the age of 5, American musical icon Dan Hicks took pause from the melodious melee running round his brain to contemplate the essence of Florida. "I'm seeing hot. Hot weather. Way too hot," he said by phone, the sweat flying off his words. "I'm getting to the age where I'm real sensitive to hot. No man,
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>He Writes The Songs</title>
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        With The Outsider, tunesmith Rodney Crowell returns in top form....
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      Ignorance is the enemy and it wields a mighty sword/ It can cut you down in a blaze of glory/ It can nail you to a board/ If mercy and compassion only had a chance/ It could fill these holes we've dug/ But ignorance is the enemy and it's working like a drug. --Rodney Crowell, from "Ignorance Is The Enemy" How does a songwriter work? Rodney Crowell was hanging out drinking with a friend one night in Belfast, listening to
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Thoroughly Jazzed</title>
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        Clearwater's jazz jewel celebrates its silver anniversary...
       
      
         Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      It started a quarter-century ago as a 10-day festival that culminated in Woody Herman's big band playing on a flatbed truck. Over the years, the Clearwater Jazz Holiday has hosted a slate of legends, stars, talented up-and-comers, obscure beboppers, smooth jazzers, classy singers, Latin sizzlers and more. In its third year, CJH condensed to a four-day event held at lush Coachman Park, often coinciding with the first cool breezes after a long, stifling summer.It has been, quite simply, a civic
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>A Piece of Pearl&amp;#39;s Heart</title>
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        Janis Joplin's spirit lives on in Wendy Rich...
       
      
        Courtesy of Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      "Some people say they get a Janis feeling from me. Of course, some people still do psychedelic drugs." --Wendy Rich There's a city of St. Petersburg cat license hanging from the necklace of Tampa Bay's soul-shakin' queen of the blues these days. It jingle-jangles all over the place when Wendy Rich is on stage, belting out those wild signature standards and lusty blue ballads that stop the barflies from buzzing and send the rafter rats to quivering with each and
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hippy Trails</title>
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        We are all Ramblin' Jack Elliott imposters...
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      There is a certain history of this United States that has never been taught in school. In this history, scribed in hieroglyphics along the brain cavities of an old cowboy named Ramblin' Jack Elliott, America is a drunken turtle wearing a cowboy hat riding a wooden schooner tossed upon cloudy seas.The schooner docks in New York City and there is Jack Kerouac, three years before the publication of On the Road, reading the whole thing (from one continuous roll of
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2004 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The Angriest Native</title>
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        A 50th birthday celebration for Bobby Hicks...
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      Songwriter Bobby Hicks stares his crowd right in the face.The crowd blinks. Bobby fires: "I'm from Tampa. It never got so bad in my town that I had to leave." The locals let out whoops and hollers. The rest know where they stand. The out-of-staters, snowbirds, developers, condo commandos, phosphate contaminators, tree cutters, big sugarmen and Mother Nature no-gooders prepare for a righteous punishment. His 1979 Harley shovelhead parked out back, Hicks squints as the brain synapses crackle like Florida
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    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2003 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>This duck smells</title>
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        Why the Ethics Commission ruling won't stop Butch Ellsworth...
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      The walk, quack, smell and shit like a duck theory does not carry much water with the Florida Commission on Ethics. They need greater proof to nab a duck. Take the case of Treasure Island City Council member Irving "Butch" Ellsworth. Everyone in town knows Butch is a prominent employee of the Rice family, the largest landowners in this tiny beach municipality. It is discussed and joked about all the time. When family spokesman Sid Rice sits in the back
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    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2003 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>State Ombudsman is Fired</title>
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        In Jeb Bush's 'One Florida,' apparently only one opinion is allowed...
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      He saved the Miami Blue butterfly. He saved the world's largest aboriginal canoe site at Newnan's Lake. He saved the Florida Folk Festival and a whole bunch of dolphins and manatees. He saved taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars by mediating enviro-lawsuits. His "alternate dispute resolution" idea changed forever the way Florida government enters the legal arena. Dr. Benji Brumberg, Ombudsman for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), spent three-and-a-half exemplary years looking over bureaucratic shoulders as the public's
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2003 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The &amp;#39;Po-Folkist</title>
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        Stetson Kennedy, a literate lion who once took on the Klan, comes to St. Petersburg...
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      He is the last Florida panther. The last living tree in Florida's golden literary forest, an everlasting dark night for the felons and foes of civil rights the world over. A dead salt marsh mosquito sticks to his freckly forehead, bald now, save for the ghost memories of the Ku Klux Klan robe that covered his head and cloaked his testicles from the stapling the Grand Dragon threatened to give the unknown snitch within. By the time the Klan found
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        Developers and beach lovers vie for the soul of a small coastal town...
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      What's happening right now to Treasure Island, that funky beach town due west of St. Petersburg, happens, eventually, to every beach community in Florida. Money comes to town, and the people who live there have to make a choice. Do they try to keep their small-town ambiance, with bohemians and retirees living down the street from each other? Do they let their town morph into a wealthy enclave of million-dollar homes? Or do they go for the big beach glitz?Mom
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2003 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Endangered Incumbents</title>
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        It's hunting season on Treasure Island's elected officials...
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      When a beachside government runs amok and its leaders begin to operate outside the will of the people, what can the little man do?Well, history repeatedly tells us there is nothing the little man can do. There is too much money involved. Folks just seem to roll over, throw up their hands, order another margarita and say, "Woe is me," while the fat cats and their building machines begin lining pockets and pouring concrete over paradise. The inhabitants of this
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2003 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      The future of Treasure Island was up against the clock and the ladies of Jazzercise on Sept. 19.Four months earlier, the Pinellas County city's commission had asked its municipal zoning board to review proposed regulations that will likely replace the funky bars and sandy roadhouses along Gulf Boulevard with glitzy high-rise hotels. At the rear of a city hall auditorium where the zoning board was meeting, beneath a clock ticking precariously close to 6 p.m., Jazzercisers had gathered. Nearby was
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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>O Brother, Where Art Thou?</title>
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        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      When a man becomes an icon, it is strange to consider his death. He is said to be dead, yet he's still around. Icon Alan Lomax informed daughter Anna recently of his plans to be 100 years old. Struggling with language and gestures few could comprehend, he indicated he would soon return to his profession as the world's foremost folk music culturist. He would resume his Global Jukebox project, interrupted by his first stroke in 1995, and assist Anna in
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    <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2002 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Bottom&amp;#39;s Up</title>
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        Saying goodbye to the late, great Rock Bottom...
       
      
        By Peter B. Gallagher
      
      
      Don't nobody cry when I'm gone/ Have a party instead/ Cause I was cool when I was livin'/ And I'll be damned if I'll be a square when I'm dead. --"Snake Dancin' Through God's Barnyard" by David "Rock Bottom" York Rock Bottom began snake dancin' through God's barnyard a couple of hours before he actually died. It was Thursday night, Sept. 27, just before the end of his last song at Mojo's, in Palm Harbor, when the big bluesman hunched
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    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2001 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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