Here is a quick review:

“And I cannot un-choose you” are the haunting words that open “I Chose You” in Cynthia Linville’s new poetry collection [...]]]> Cynthia Linville has a new poetry book out now!

Here is a quick review:

“And I cannot un-choose you” are the haunting words that open “I Chose You” in Cynthia Linville’s new poetry collection The Lost Thing, covering adventures in lust and longing. Linville shows astonishing insight into the ephemeral nature of lust, one of the sadder aspects of love. Her work about hedonistic heartbreak is timeless and universal. We discover how big the poet’s heart is as she describes the torture of memory and the youthful desire to encompass the world, to know everything, to be everywhere. “Aperture,” a two-line poem, can be applied not only to sex but to all existence. How well she describes the panic of those “Kissed by Venus” – one of her apt titles – as well as [how] “this hot thunder can’t last.”

Go to http://www.coldriverpress.org/HTML/lost%20thing.htm and get the full story….

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Hey Friends: Head over to GoChristmas123 for the season music of Cracker, Johnny Hickman, Chris LeRoy, The BellRays, Gigglejuice and more. Plus Reviews, Pics, Video and Stuff from Rebecca Hickman, Morst, BigDave, Trixie Martha and Paul Adams…

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Have a grand Christmas!

-Chris LeRoy

1,2,3… Go Go Christmas: Seasonal fare with friends like Paul Adams, Rebecca Hickman, and the like! ~CL

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Go ahead, Santa told you to.

Today you’ll find new content from MORST, REBECCA (40 FOREVER), and bigDAVE, and lots of songs from our music family… really! Also check out the essays at DRIVE BYES (Kinks and Stones) and get in THE LAST WORD on Paul Adams Listening Theme: THE ROLLING STONES REVIEW

NEW SONGS ON UP from CRACKER, [...]]]>

Today you’ll find new content from MORST, REBECCA (40 FOREVER), and bigDAVE, and lots of songs from our music family… really! Also check out the essays at DRIVE BYES (Kinks and Stones) and get in THE LAST WORD on Paul Adams Listening Theme: THE ROLLING STONES REVIEW

NEW SONGS ON UP from CRACKER, CVB and THE DANGERS

Today you’ll find new content from MORST, REBECCA (40 FOREVER), and bigDAVE, and lots of songs from our music family… really! Also check out the essays at DRIVE BYES (Kinks and Stones) and get in on Paul Adams  Listening Theme: THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM FAN CHOICE

NEW SONGS ON  UP from CRACKER, CVB and THE [...]]]>

Today you’ll find new content from MORST, REBECCA (40 FOREVER), and bigDAVE, and lots of songs from our music family… really! Also check out the essays at DRIVE BYES (Kinks and Stones) and get in on Paul Adams  Listening Theme: THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM FAN CHOICE

NEW SONGS ON  UP from CRACKER, CVB and THE DANGERS

Today you’ll find new content from MORST, REBECCA (40 FOREVER), and bigDAVE, and lots of songs from our music family… really!  Also check out the essays at DRIVE BYES (Kinks and Stones) and get in on Paul Adams next Listening Theme….

The Songbook Highway is a community site for music, and ideas. Started by music collaborators Chris LeRoy and Johnny Hickman as a myspace page in 2006, the site and community has expanded from fans of Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, and The Dangers to an eclectic group of listeners and thinkers, and bands like The Hoppers, [...]]]>

The Songbook Highway is a community site for music, and ideas. Started by music collaborators Chris LeRoy and Johnny Hickman as a myspace page in 2006, the site and community has expanded from fans of Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, and The Dangers to an eclectic group of listeners and thinkers, and bands like The Hoppers, The Black Widows, The BellRays, Bucksworth, McCabe and Mrs. Miller… It goes on!

Added MORST’s Pick, Johnny’s Cracker version of SHAKE SOME ACTION. Johnny first sang this cover of The Flaming Groovies masterpiece with THE DANGERS in the early 1980’s. But We still left GET HIGH for you to do so for the new year.

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Happy New Year to our SongBook Highway friends….Johnny Hickman and Chris LeRoy

First off, headed into Christmas, I want to thank Jessica Breckenridge for her enormous help getting this site going. What a great dinner conversation back at Fi-Stock last September that moved us into this journey. Also, friend by friend we are starting to get the SongBook Highway family going. Folks like John Mockmore, and Garod [...]]]>

First off, headed into Christmas, I want to thank Jessica Breckenridge for her enormous help getting this site going. What a great dinner conversation back at Fi-Stock last September that moved us into this journey. Also, friend by friend we are starting to get the SongBook Highway family going. Folks like John Mockmore, and Garod and Diana G. and Laramie and Maria are coming by and making the connections that grow this place. We have many friends on Facebook, Twitter or myspace that haven’t found that this is our hub but by next year at this time…. To celebrate our new found friends we posted a couple Christmas tracks from Chris LeRoy, White Christmas and Christmas in Prison…

So have a safe holiday. Find a quiet spot and think good thoughts. Sing yourself to sleep at night
Thanks again, Jess!
—Chris LeRoy

So what have week this week up to Christmas?

MORST brings in the Monks of Doom. Paul Adams has his Christmas Song Invite. BigDave has videos from Cracker (Merry Christmas, Emily) and The Dangers (staying in the Blue Album spirit) and if you haven’t seen Rebecca Hickman’s last three book review of Christmas and Hanukkah and Home, well… you ought to go there right now.

Also as The Dangers new album (The Dangers/Blue Album) is on CD Baby, we want to show their rockinginest track, WALKING HIGHWAY 61. Chris LeRoy and Bob Vennum injected the production with that hint of what it is to see The Dangers live…