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Nelson George

SIR SID

A MOVIE MEMORY FROM 1967

Jan 7, 2022

SIR SID

Jan 7, 2022

2021 Films, Streaming, Music

Films, television and music circa 2021 that were well made, emotional or entertaining. It’s not a best of or top ten. It’s just stuff that…

Dec 14, 2021

Dec 14, 2021

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The Riff

GOING “POP” AS A BUSINESS DECISION

Very few true artists can think as clearly about business as they do art. Many believe they can, but very few do. It’s a delusion of this…

Oct 28, 2021

Oct 28, 2021

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The Riff

REMEMBERING NYC’S LOFT JAZZ SCENE

A 1977 piece takes me back to an avant-garde jazz moment

Oct 4, 2021

REMEMBERING NYC’S LOFT JAZZ SCENE

Oct 4, 2021

TWO OF MY VINTAGE MUSIC BOOKS NOW ON AUDIBLE

I’ve partnered with Audibile Books to release many of non-fiction books as well as several of my novels as audio books.

Jul 21, 2021

TWO OF MY VINTAGE MUSIC BOOKS NOW ON AUDIBLE

Jul 21, 2021

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The Riff

OTIS BLACKWELL: Songwriter for Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and James Taylor

#BLACKMUSICMONTH Memory

Jun 13, 2021

OTIS BLACKWELL: Songwriter for Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and James Taylor

Jun 13, 2021

JUNE IS BLACK MUSIC MONTH

A few of my books that’ll help you celebrate the music and culture that inspires it.

Jun 1, 2021

JUNE IS BLACK MUSIC MONTH

Jun 1, 2021

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The Riff

JAMES BROWN ‘STAR TIME’ LINER NOTES: My contribution to the 1992 Grammy Award-winning notes on an…

Last week, on May 7, was the 40th anniversary of the release of the James Brown ‘Star Time’ box. The package of seventy-two songs is the…

May 13, 2021

JAMES BROWN ‘STAR TIME’ LINER NOTES: My contribution to the 1992 Grammy Award-winning notes on an…

May 13, 2021

Declare Little Victories: A valuable technique for navigating a creative career

At various points in my life I aspired to be authors Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway, critic/historian Greil Marcus, filmmaker Frances…

May 3, 2021

May 3, 2021

Life After Death in the Time of Covid-19

Three men who helped shape my life died during the dark spring of 2020

Apr 21, 2021

Life After Death in the Time of Covid-19

Apr 21, 2021

Nelson George

Nelson George

Author and filmmaker. Current books: a novel, The Darkest Hearts (Akashic); music collection The Nelson George Mixtape (Pacific) www.pacificpacific.pub.

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