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Pete Seeger & Bush’s “Big Muddy”

Pete Seeger — 1969

Several weeks ago PBS aired Pete Seeger: The Power of Song as part of their American Masters series. If you missed it, make amends and check here for reruns. It’s terrific, but I won’t review it; Variety did that well, noting that Seeger is one of “a few rare people …   Continue Reading »

Little City in the Everglades

Everglades City, FL

I stood on the bottom coast of Florida, with the Gulf offshore, mangrove and grassy everglades in every other direction, two hours to Miami, but times away from big town currency and gloss. There are no big boxes, chain motels, or fast food franchises in Everglades City. It doesn’t look like Interstate Everyplace, …   Continue Reading »

Bear Market Rap

In December 1990, when I was working as an investment banker in San Francisco, I wrote and recorded a rap song.