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On my desk at the moment is a pre-release Kindle copy of Mary E. Donnelly<\/strong>‘s long awaited book about the Zion, IL powerpop group. Shoes<\/strong> began their recording career in the 1970s and continue to present-day; in fact they’ll be making a relatively rare live appearance soon, at this year’s SXSW. (If you\u2019re going to Austin for the fest, Shoes are a must-see.)<\/p>\n The last year has seen quite a bit of Shoes-related activity: The group’s first studio album in decades, Ignition<\/em>, was released. A career-spanning collection came out (here’s a review of 35 Years: The Definitive Shoes Collection 1977-2012<\/em><\/a>). Their back catalog is being reissued on vinyl in a multi-month rollout. And last Summer I interviewed bassist John Murphy<\/strong><\/a> about all of these and more, including Donnelly’s book.<\/p>\n While I’m busy working my way through this weighty tome, I invite you to check out the other features and reviews mentioned above. And I’ll report back here shortly after I finish the book.<\/p>\n On my desk at the moment is a pre-release Kindle copy of Mary E. Donnelly‘s long awaited book about the Zion, IL powerpop group. Shoes began their recording career in […]<\/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":[10,49,55],"tags":[1422,1948],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-new-release","category-powerpop","tag-mary-e-donnelly","tag-shoes","cat-10-id","cat-49-id","cat-55-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/shoes_kindle.jpg\")
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