HeyJaredLetters from a Moock
Alastair Moock is an award-winning singer-songwriter, Grammy-nominated family musician, and co-founder of The Opening Doors Project, an antiracist music organization. He lives outside Boston with his wife and two cats, one of whom sucks.
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Waking Up to the Wonder of Stevie: Redux (opens the original)
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Because today is the 50th anniversary of Stevie Wonder’s stunning and revolutionary “Songs in the Key of Life,” I’m re-posting this piece I wrote about him a couple of years ago… Do yourself a favor: Take a break and dig the album out. Love's in need of love today.<img alt=""
Dolly Parton Has the Last Laugh (opens the original)
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You may be all Dolly-ed out this week. But if you have room for one more remembrance, mine was published this morning by WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station. You can read it HERE.I wrote about the crude playground joke that first introduced me to Parton and the ways in which I had to overcome my own biases to appreciate her brilliance. I analyzed some of her lyrics—deceptively simple, masterfully crafted—and explored the legacy of her philanthropy and mixed record of activism (despite her silence
Unable to Curb My Enthusiasm (opens the original)
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love Curb Your Enthusiasm and those who hate it. I have a magnet of Larry David’s face on my refrigerator.Why, you may ask, am I writing about the show now, two years after its twelfth and final season, when there’s nothing particularly new or newsworthy to report about it? Because I was bored. And also I’ve been thinking a lot about comedy lately.I love comedy. It’s a shameful secret that I watch and listen to more comedy, and interviews wit
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