California Novelist Songwriter Rick Alan Rice Offers Music, Literature, Essay, Biography and Verse

Two New Tunes This Edition - This week's RAR original is "Brideshead Suite", which opens like a send-up of "Little Wing" and goes through a few evolutions before pooling to a puddle on the floor. Kidding, I'm actually pleased with this demo version, which marries the aforementioned Hendrix to The Band, The Beatles, Tears for Fears and Tom Petty, at least to my mind. ("...people usually imitate each other..." guilty as charged). It is even worse with "The Goodbye Look", the great Donald Fagan tune of which I offer a Karaoke rendition, but affectionately copied right down to the Larry Carlton guitar parts. I downloaded one of the many well rendered midi arrangements available on line, exchanged a couple guitar tracks for my own and did the vocals. Wonderful song, though I didn't have Gretchen pour me a Cuban Breeze. I wasn't lucky enough to know Gretchen... That is me pictured above, not in Cuba but in Jamaica, exactly 100 years ago.

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RAR reviews LPs from Michael ONeill (Ain't Leavin' Your Love), Sarah Stanley (Tuesday Girl), Hilary York (In The Dark), Tom Corwin and Tim Hockenberry (Mostly Dylan), The Boxmasters (Modbilly), Mad Buffalo (Wilderness), and others. Also read reviews from RARWRITER contributors Doug Strobel and Diana Olson.

BOOK REVIEWS AND MORE (click here): This edition, RAR takes a long look at Philip K. Dick, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Clemens and The Iowa Writer's Workshop. Read earlier RAR reviews, including a look back at David Halberstam's The Reckoning, and Alan Greenspan's book "The Age of Turbulence."

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