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Joe Nolan’s Paradise

Here is the premiere of the new video for my song “Paradise.” Conceived, directed and edited from public domain footage found at Archive.org, “Paradise” combines images of San Francisco in 1941 with shots from the city captured in 1968 during that era’s counter-cultural revolution. The video takes the song’s declarative chorus as a jumping-off point [...]

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The New Joe Nolan’s Insomnia

When I started this blog way back in 2004, I was publishing it through Blogger. A special piece of code allowed me to use their interface while publishing it to my own website. When Google bought Blogger, they decided to get rid of this service and I had to move fast. 963 Collective came to [...]

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The Other King of Pop Bites the Sucker

Richard Hamilton died this Thursday. If you didn’t know who Richard Hamilton was, trust me, you know who Richard Hamilton was. Here is an obit that argues that Hamilton was the most influential British artist of the 20th century. I immediately thought, “Well what about Bacon??!?”. The answer to that and more after the running [...]

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Bridge Over Troubled Water

Bonjour, mes amis. I write you from a cold, rainy afternoon in Nashville. I am off to hear some classical music tonight and to drink some kind of warming liquor to help me better match moods with this sad-faced evening. I have been remiss in my latest correspondences, which is to say – there haven’t [...]

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Not So Plain Jane

Hola brothers and sisters. It’s a lovely day here in the Old South and I wanted to take a minute to share some good news. Since the recent release of the newly-remastered Plain Jane CD, The Hawk is My Brother has received nearly as many orders for it as we have for my latest project, [...]

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Otherwise

Otherwise Loneliness is an old friend who respects your privacy. He knows when to interrupt. A person alone is a limb on the water and a flash in the black. We have much to offer, but only to the desperate. Happy people rarely call, and we can always cling to ourselves. Solitude is solid, and [...]

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