The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper published in Washington, D.C., and was founded on December 6, 1877, making it the area's oldest extant newspaper. Located in the capital city of the United States, the newspaper has a particular emphasis on national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. The newspaper is published as a broadsheet, with photographs printed both in color and in black and white. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. (More from Wikipedia)
Mark Jenkins with the Washington Post has written of this album: "If some CBGB's Frankenstein had managed, circa 1977, to transplant Patti Smith's sensibility into Blondie's garage-band pop, the result would have sounded something like BoySkout's School of Etiquette. Outfitted in such New Wavey accessories as sneakers and skinny ties, this lesbian-rock quartet revives such Smithian motifs as drowning and the erotic appeal of outlaws, but with girl-group bounce. School of Etiquette may not be genteel, but it is impeccably arranged."
(January 2014)
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One clue to what was happening with Bob Dylan occurred about six months before Slow Train Coming was released in November 1979; as reported by Wikipedia: "Before the album was completed, Patty Valentine had brought a defamation-of-character suit against Dylan, regarding the song 'Hurricane' from Desire; on May 22, [1979,] while giving a pre-trial deposition in his defense, Dylan was asked about his wealth. 'You mean my treasure on earth?' replied Dylan. He was asked about the identity of the 'fool' in 'Hurricane'. Dylan said the 'fool' was 'whoever Satan gave power to . . . whoever was blind to the truth and was living by his own truth.' Five days later, Dylan's pre-trial statement was reported in the Washington Post, which also interviewed Kenn Gulliksen, who revealed to the paper that Dylan had joined the Vineyard Christian Fellowship."
(August 2014)
