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SUPER VIXEN — John Morthland meets the XXX-rated Millie Jackson in Boston (Black Music, 1975) and NME's Charles Shaar Murray revisits her classic Caught Up/Still Caught Up albums (1985). Plus the outrageous Ms. Jackson looks back on Muscle Shoals and more with Songfacts' Carl Wiser in 2010…
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SCENE & HEARD — Choice morsels from RBP co-founder Martin Colyer's delightful "dispatches from the everyday world of music". Plus Martin's 2001 "user's guide" to alt.country troubadour Robbie Fulks and his 2009 interview with the inimitable Aimee Mann…
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• Philly International (2013)
• Vashti Bunyan's Heartleap (2014)
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• Josef K's Kinda Funny (2016)
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• Flight of the Conchords (2018)
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