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THE CURRENT LIST
Raison D’Etre
End-Of-Year Best Music
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Good to My Earhole
GTME 2014
Four Sounds I Really Like
“Panther Burn” Take Over Memphis Public Access and the Cotton Carnival in 1979
Listening Top 10, March 30 – April 4, 2014
Listening Top 10, April 5 – April 11, 2014
Listening Top 10, April 12-April 18, 2014
May 5-9 – What? NEW Rekkids?
Golden Age of Rap / Anita / Rollins
May 2014: Selections Across Two Busy Weeks
First Half of June 2014
The Last Half of June 2014
New Orleans, August 2014
September Songs
GTME 2015
Facebook GTME Transfers!
Part 1, The Seen.
Part 2, The Read.
Part 3, The Heard.
GTME 2016
January 10-16: Wailin’ in the New Year with Jazz
January 17-21: Life on Mars?
January 22-29: Serenades to a Cuckoo
January 30-February 4: Life’s Too Short
February 5 – February 14:Walking the Negro Streets at Dawn
February 14-24: “Don’t You Hate It When….”
March 1-9: “Destroyed on The Lathe of Heaven”
March 12-17: “Mi Canto”
April 1-10: “Not Counting Merle–Well, Except for One Rekkid”
April 6-9: Goodbye, Merle
April 15-19: “Feed the Flame”
April 20-27: “Chaos and Disorder.”
April 30-May 5: “I’ll Start”
May 12-19: “OK Men Now Let’s Get in Formation”
May 20-31: “The Style You Haven’t Done Yet?”
June 1-16: Headfirst into the (Summer) Flames
June 17-July 3: “Masque of the Red Def”
July 20 – August 7: “Why Do I Suddenly Appear Every Time I Am Near?”
August 10. Kama Sutra and Bondage. I give! My safe word: trumpets!
August 11 – September 6: Through Many Dangers
September 17-24: “Destroy to Rebuilt.”
September 2016: TYLER KEITH AND THE APOSTLES–DO IT FOR JOHNNY! If ya got any guts!
Past Pupil Stay Sane…I’m Struggling My Damn Self.
GTME 2017
The Edge of ’17
Reviews
10 Reasons to Read Amanda Petrusich’s DO NOT SELL AT ANY PRICE
Allen Lowe’s New Adventures In the Diaspora of the Diaspora
Aram Bajakian’s DALAVA: THE BOOK OF TRANSFIGURATIONS
Blasts from The Past
Bo Dollis, Jr., and The Wild Magnolias’ A NEW KIND OF FUNK
Early Recording by Unsung Memphis Master Demands Your Full Attention!
George Jones: STILL THE SAME OLD ME (VHS)
Goodbye, Merle
I Like My Pockets Fat and Not Flat
Jason Derulo’s TALK DIRTY
Jim Jarmusch’s Stooges Documentary GIMME DANGER: The Stash Dauber and I Team Up to Evaluate the Threat
John Schooley’s THE MAN WHO RODE THE MULE AROUND THE WORLD
Money for Guns’ 21st Century Life
Natural Child: Dancin’ with Wolves
Out of This World
Phineas’ Hour
“The Rhythm, The Rebel!”
A Sample Review of Jinx Lennon’s PAST PUPIL STAY SANE
Seeds Scattered Elsewhere (Sugarbuzz, The Stash Dauber, Columbia Tribune, The Village Voice)
Son of Desert Island Books: The Ten Books I’ve Read THIS YEAR That I’d Haul Away with Me
Sorry So Slow, Jazmine!
Thoughts on GREEN BOOK, Yugen Blakrok, and The Stanley Brothers
THE THREE-SIDED DREAM: A Must-See Film About Rahsaan Roland Kirk
TYLER KEITH AND THE APOSTLES–DO IT FOR JOHNNY! If ya got any guts!
Rock in Real Life
Neil Young Ruined My Life Part 1
Neil Young Ruined My Life Part 2
Wussy / Sinatra Attack
Southern-Fried Listening Journal, Spring 2014
New Orleans, August 2014
5,000 Miles Away from Home–A Northwest Road-Trip Journal
A Memory Stirred by Carl Wilson’s Celine Dion 33 1/3 Book
Top 10 Great Music-Related Things That Happened to Me This Week – August 16, 2014
Hot Day in Velma
2,119-Mile Texas Trip
The Violence of Chuck Berry
Jeffrey Lewis Masterpiece: Scowling Crackhead Ian
Gud’by to Mark E.
E-Street Bland, Live at Kiel, ’99
Fifteen Records from My Teens
If You Were in The World’s Greatest Record Store, and You Had Enough Money for One Record
Now I Got a Reason–How I Got Hooked on Rock and Roll
Paisley Parking
Yellow Brick Road Trips
I Can’t Help It (Little Richard Attack)
E-Street Bland, Live at Kiel, ’99
My Imaginary Top 100 Ballot Submitted to Rolling Stone for its “500 Greatest Albums of the Rock and Roll Era”
Education
The Academy of Rock
The Academy of Rock: A Brief History
When The Pierced Arrows Brought It to The Kids
Folk-Funk Comes to Hickman: Bobby Rush–VERY LIVE!
Midwest Lo-Fi Psycho-delic Attack: A review of Woody Records’ artist sampler CD by Mackenzie Thomas
How I Decided to Become a Teacher
I Recommend an All-Time Desert Island Top 20 (plus a 50-item appendix to prove I am not an old fart) to a Class of 12th Graders
“Mr. Diaz, Can I Turn This in Late, Please?”: A Life Soundtrack Assignment Completed for Gits and Shiggles for a Former Comrade
Stephens College English 107 (Pop Music Emphasis): Classroom Chatter
Kicking My Legs (Dylan Style)
Tierra Whack / Sophie: Socratic Seminar College Girls Gone Critically Wild
Classroom Clatter
Classroom Clatter Part 2
Tweaking the Classroom
Ah: The Teacher Has Become the Student
Teachers: Write Your Own Model Essays!
Flying Daggers Style
Apples and Oranges
Interviews
Charlie Burton
John Schooley
Mr. and The Mrs.
Podcasts
Poetry About Music
Haiku for Ahmad Jamal, Upon Listening to “Live at the Pershing” (1958) and “Chicago Revisited/Live at Joe Segal’s” (1993)
The Atheist Confronts A LOVE SUPREME
The Wrong Notes (A poem Thelonious Monk caused)
“Texas Playboy”: The Only Poem I’ve Written in the Last 15 Years
Paul Blackburn, “Listening to Sonny Rollins at The Five Spot”: When Jazz Poetry Works
First Church Archives
About Phil Overeem
THE CURRENT LIST
Raison D’Etre
End-Of-Year Best Music
Good to My Earhole
Reviews
Rock in Real Life
Education
Interviews
Podcasts
Poetry About Music
First Church Archives
About Phil Overeem
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