Tag: miss you
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Podcast: The Crazy Things You Do – A Conversation with Kimberly C. Ransom
For the first d / m / s / r podcast of 2018 (!), it was my pleasure to speak with budding educational historian and Prince scholar Kimberly C. Ransom. Kimberly presented at the University of Salford’s interdisciplinary Prince conference last May–those of you who listened to my series of podcasts on that event probably heard…
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Roundup: Ephemera, 1977-1978
I’m not gonna lie, folks: this “chapter” of the blog wasn’t always easy to get through. I’ve mentioned that For You is my least favorite album of Prince’s “classic period,” and his outtakes from that time are, well, outtakes. If nothing else, however, this was valuable training for when I trudge through the parts of his…
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1978 Instrumentals
Prince’s 1978 instrumentals are fundamentally rough sketches, not unlike his untitled home recordings of 1976; the main difference is that both the aural fidelity and his musicianship had improved exponentially in the interim.