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Richard Gehr | August 06, 2007

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  • Lee Hazelwood, who wrote "These Boots Were Made for Walking," "Sugartown," and "Some Velvet Morning" among other shadowy country hits recorded by the likes of Nancy Sinatra and Kris Kristofferson, died of cancer Saturday at seventy-eight. Hazelwood released his swan song, Cake or Death, earlier this year.

  • As tourism declines and venues close, New Orleans musicians are just getting by with the help of cooperative music offices sponsored by the legendary club Tipitina's and other local institutions. Meanwhile, a community of musicians grows in New Orleans. Initiated by Ellis Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr., Musicians Village will consist of seventy single-family residences in the ravaged Ninth Ward with the Ellis Marsalis Music Center as its virtual town square.

  • Neil Young will "create" a comic book—I mean graphic novel—based on his 2003 album, movie, stage production, and website Greendale for DC Comics' less-superheroic Vertigo imprint.

  • Madrid, according to The New York Times, has become a kind of neutral zone where both pro- and anti-Castro musicians can create together minus the polarizing political confrontations common in other parts of the world. These even include relatives such as eighty-eight-year-old jazz pianist Bebo Valdés, who fled Cuba in 1960, and his jazz pianist son, Chucho Valdés, 65, who maintains a home in Havana.

  • Life should be a lot more like music, said philosopher Alan Watts, a point illustrated with uncustomary gentleness by the South Park guys here.

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