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Some old music posts



I discovered Ren for myself.

A bluegrass list of YouTube.

I love musicals.

New Music to me: Post

Rats

Jazz

Miles Davis

Molly Miller

Russell Hall Septet

Banana songs

Ari Hoenig

New Music 9/21/23

Gustav Mahler

Neil Peart

Oh, and I have an opera blog. Shit, should I collapse that one into this? I think so.


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