Rearview Roadkill: RetroRewind

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  RetroRewind – the song you hate to love

  I could easily be called obsessive compulsive. This holds especially true when it comes to music. Here’s my normal modus operandi. I hear a song I like on the radio, internet, whatever; Shazam it, find it on Spotify, listen to is 2985 times, finally grow sick of it then try to avoid the song at [...]

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  RetroRewind: Dude, you sing like a girl.

  The winner of last week’s ChopperCouture was Tara at Relative Evolutions. If you want a woman’s perspective on divorce and co-parenting she’s a great read! Congrats Tara!  Arguably, Ozark Mountain Daredevils is one of the coolest band names to come out of the 70’s. I mean anytime you can get the word daredevil in you’re [...]

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  RetroRewind – a 3rd grader’s cure for the national debt

  My introduction, growing up, to politics wasn’t the local board member visiting our class nor was it the students assembling in the cafeteria to listen over the loudspeakers as the President addressed the nation. Instead, my first indoctrination into the affairs of government was a three-minute animated video and catchy tune that I haven’t stopped [...]

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  RetroRewind – One Band, three names, and a smokin’ hot lead singer.

  Few musical acts can lay claim to writing part of the sound-track of three decades. The Beatles may have changed the face of music but they only made it a decade. While the Rolling Stones have been at it longer they really haven’t done anything worth mention since Tattoo You in ’81. From their beginnings [...]

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  RetroRewind: This song will make you cool.

  I have a new favorite cd, well actually it’s only new to me seeing as it was produced in ‘74. About that time I was four years old and couldn’t have told you the difference between Stairway to Heaven and Rock-a-bye baby. And besides, where I grew up there were really only two music choices [...]

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  RetroRewind: My first childhood crush

  It was my first crush. Every Friday night I made the necessary arrangements to have my rear parked in from of the TV in time to see my first love – Daisy Mae Duke. The brunette bombshell had the hearts of every man from 1979 to 1985. The Duke’s of Hazzard make it cool to [...]

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  RetroRewind: The dance move that changed everything!

  Long before there were Video Music Awards, Pandora, or MTV there was Motown. Founded in 1959; Barry Gordy and his Motown Records signed some of the greatest musicians and entertainers the world has ever known including Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Commodores, and The Jackson 5 with legendary younger brother Michael. To commemorate its twenty-fifth [...]

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