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Prine and company - In Spite of Ourselves

John Prine’s 15 Essential Songs https://www.nytimes.com/article/john-prine-songs.html?referringSource=articleShare

I’ve had Tidal and Qobuz jointly running for a few months now. I prefer Qobuz Mac interface quite a bit, but Tidal’s iOS interface for significant speed loading difference. Tidal has a larger artist catalog, but Qobuz goes deeper with the artists it has (EPs, etc.).Like Americana and Bluegrass? Go Tidal. Listen mostly to Classical and need detailed metadata? Go Qobuz. Listen mostly to albums? Qobuz is organized for you. Want generated playlists based on recent listens? Tidal has them. Want auxiliary information on releases? It’s Qobuz. Want upfront presentation of new releases? Tidal. Then there’s everyone favorite MQA (Tidal) v. 24/192 (Qobuz) debate. Keep in mind this is all in comparison only. Either service is pretty wonderful and are amazing options we have. Because of personal artists preferences, I end up on Tidal more often (and sometimes struggling to get around their suggested new young artists), but the Qobuz missing artists is still an issue, though that list is clearly shrinking.

Should anyone be interested Magnums revolving Square Print sale is back up for a few days. 50% of their proceeds go to Médecins Sans Frontières’s COVID-19 emergency response.

Which leads to the biggie - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

I hadn't heard of this phenomenon, until this article last week. Sounds like a good plan in this climate to me.

You just triggered me into listening to their album that's been getting the most listens here over the last year. Will the minor Little Creatures eventually become my favorite? I never really liked it on release (or the couple decades after).

Qobuz is $15 and Amazon His Res $14 of that matters. It’s a price/convenience/music discovery question I suppose. Qobuz and Tidal have a free month trial if you want to give them a spin.

I know it’s not what your looking for and you’d still have to solve the DAC question, but why not take thIs opportunity to liberate the local storage need and go full Tidal/Qobuz?

Damn. Just came across his first review... by Roger Ebert.

Most definitely and the women this season were amazing.

Ozark season 3. Moved out of Breaking Bad's shadow this season.

Why are we allowed only one ❤️? Beautiful guys.

Was big fan of 2001s The Ghost of Fashion. Then kinda forgot about him/them. Then Tidal reminded me. Great review of the new album here - https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/clem-snide-forever-just-beyond/

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Clem Snide - "Roger Ebert"

Diary of a Pandemic The first in a weekly series of curations of images made by Magnum photographers around the world, working and living under varying degrees of social restriction

Make Way For Jean Dushon

For whatever reason I’ve been moderately obsessed with the David Adjaye designed Master & Dynamic MA770 wireless concrete speaker for a few years. It just hit 50% off (code WFH50 = ~$600, 33% of orig price) if anyone else is interested. Course I don’t need another speaker. The timing is bad. I don’t need another speaker...

^ Is that handheld?

'Curly' Neal, Harlem Globetrotters ball-handling legend, dies at 77

Fables of the Reconstruction is the best!* *REM considers it their worst.

Terrence McNally, four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, dies of coronavirus complications https://www.thedailybeast.com/terrence-mcnally-tony-award-winning-playwright-dies-of-complications-due-to-coronavirus-at-81

Secret Sisters | Saturn Return

Ahhh, Rogers was a photographer too. https://petapixel.com/2020/03/23/the-late-kenny-rogers-was-a-fantastic-photographer/