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In the dusk of the miracle of hearing Arthur Russell and Tower of Meaning some 41, 32, and 24 years on in a park

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Jul 24, 2024
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Sometime near the end of the year 2000 –when it still seemed harmless, informative, maybe even edifying to listen to total strangers on the internet– I took the advice of an online guy named Dan Selzer to check out two recent CD comps of disco that featured the music of a guy named Arthur Russell.

He made disco music, I inferred, but not “that kind” of …

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