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...memoir category, instead subtitling the text a “memory loop.” The framework of this generic rechristening helps Lelyveld avoid some of memoir’s more obvious traps, self-indulgence among them, but it is fundamentally less than honest: “Omaha Blues?? is still a memoir, and only a fair one at that...
...Omaha Blues?? is, in theory, the kind of memoir that justifies its existence almost without effort. Lelyveld has lived an exciting life against the backdrop of a hazily understood but intriguing childhood. Shuffled among relatives in Omaha, New York, and Alabama before matriculating at Harvard, he went on to work at the New York Times...
...harmonica or the organ. Country legend Emmylou Harris sings back-up vocals on three of the tracks (“We Are Nowhere And It’s Now,” “Another Travelin’ Song,” and “Landlocked Blues??), and their collaboration produces what is easily the album’s best music...
This borrowing of traditions and allusion even goes back to ancient Roman poetry. Prof. Thomas points out the striking similarities between a verse in Dylan’s “Lonesome Bay Blues?? and a passage in the English translation of Virgil’s Aenied...
...Lola Leave Your Light On”) is clearly still alive and well. Unfortunately, blues number “My Separate Reality” sounds so much like the Allman Brothers original “Desdemona” and blues standard “Worried Down with the Blues?? that Haynes’ songwriting capacities are brought into question; overall, the songs on this album impress less than those on The Deepest End. There are still ferocious moments on many of the tracks where Haynes’ gruff voice can make your hair stand up or where...