{"id":542,"date":"2011-06-30T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T10:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2011-06-30T05:16:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T10:16:10","slug":"two-years-of-musoscribe-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/30\/two-years-of-musoscribe-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Years of Musoscribe: Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/branson1.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"263\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"350\" \/>To celebrate the two-year anniversary of this blog, I\u2019m taking the opportunity to look back over some of the more than five hundred blog entries I\u2019ve posted. I\u2019ve conducted interviews, written essays and reviewed new albums, reissues and DVDs. Every now and then I take a break from interviews and reviews, instead penning various-degrees-of-idiosyncratic little essays. Here are some of my favorites.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=472\"><em>One That Should\u2019ve Got Away<\/em><\/a>, a      thinly-veiled account of one of my band breakups<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=391\"><em>What      I\u2019m Listening To, And Why<\/em><\/a>, in which I reveal my patented review method.      Well, not really.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=354\"><em>The Top Five Things I Learned at Margaritaville<\/em><\/a>      is a wry look back to the mid 1980s.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=111\"><em>\u201cDon\u2019t Fret,\u201d or, \u201cI Write the Songs\u201d      Garage Style<\/em><\/a> recounts one of the more humorous episodes from my      deservedly-humble musical past.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=212\"><em>A Look Back at &#8220;Psychedelic      Siren&#8221;<\/em><\/a> gives some attention to this punk-rock obscurity.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=348\"><em>The Buzztones&#8217; Show of Excellence<\/em><\/a>      recalls a particularly memorable gig.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=250\"><em>Crate-digging at the Dog Groomers<\/em><\/a>      serves up another 1980s slice of life.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=301\"><em>Travel Diary: <\/em><em>Branson<\/em><em> <\/em><em>MO<\/em><\/a> takes an ever-so-slightly mocking      yet affectionate close-up look at this, um, unique town.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">And in      my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=376\"><em>Mayer Hawthorne Concert Review<\/em><\/a>      I pull back the curtain on corporate tie-in marketing. Surprise: it\u2019s not      always a bad thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\" class=\"body\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" valign=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"18\" \/> Twitter<\/a><br \/>\nand get notified when new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the two-year anniversary of this blog, I\u2019m taking the opportunity to look back over some of the more than five hundred blog entries I\u2019ve posted. I\u2019ve conducted interviews, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-list","cat-8-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}