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winter 2009
the issue that'll free your
doubtful mind and melt
your cold, cold heart
What can we say about 2009?
We’re happy to be part of the national
swoon and the new day! Yes we are.
To celebrate, we offer issue lucky #7
of shaking like a mountain. For it, we
asked some of our better known friends
to contribute their stuff. And they were
kind enough to ask some of their friends.
The result is a daisy chain of prose and
poetry and the most eclectic issue of shaking yet. That’s a good thing, right?
Starting with prose, there’s Pablo Medina’s other-worldly “CuBop City,” and “The Woods Between the Worlds,” Marion Winik’s musings on music and family. There’s also Wayne Cresser’s beer-soaked ruminations on lost love, Vito Grippi’s hardscrabble story about 4th of July reunions gone bad, Dr. Rob ( R.A. Stovetop) Lawson’s essay on da blues in the days of Jim Crow, and Gary Fincke’s account of a Pittsburgh boy’s love for R&B and early Rock n’ Roll.
From Pittsburgh also, there’s the raucous poetry of Jan Beatty. Other poets include, but are not limited to, Carol V. Davis, Harriet Brown, and Michele Wolf.
Thank you friends!!!!!!!!!!
One other note:
Okay, so we’ haven’t quite gotten to all the cha-cha-changes we have in mind for shaking yet, but rest assured Mr. Don and Mr. Juan are working on them. New buttons and new bows for 2009. In that regard, we make this appeal to our musician/reader friends. You have a band, you have an act, you release a CD, you make your stuff available in various formats here, there and everywhere___ tell us about it. Don’t get us wrong, one of used to make money from writing pop criticism and the other of us used to edit same for money, so we dig the rock journalism thing. But shaking doesn’t do that___ you (meaning singers, songwriters and players in bands), could, however, in the following variant form. We’d like you to tell us in your own words (of 250 in number, more or less) about your current or newly released projects. Yes! DIY music promotion for the new millennium, shaking style. Oh daddy.
Submission details can be found by clicking on the button that says submit!.
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We're Don & Juan for ~shaking like a mountain~
