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Nelson George

SIR SID

A MOVIE MEMORY FROM 1967

2 min readJan 7, 2022

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SIR SID

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Nelson George

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…

1 min readDec 14, 2021

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Nelson George
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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…

3 min readOct 28, 2021

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Nelson George
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The Riff

REMEMBERING NYC’S LOFT JAZZ SCENE

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

3 min readOct 4, 2021

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REMEMBERING NYC’S LOFT JAZZ SCENE

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Nelson George

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.

2 min readJul 21, 2021

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TWO OF MY VINTAGE MUSIC BOOKS NOW ON AUDIBLE

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Nelson George
in
The Riff

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

#BLACKMUSICMONTH Memory

2 min readJun 13, 2021

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

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Nelson George

JUNE IS BLACK MUSIC MONTH

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

1 min readJun 1, 2021

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JUNE IS BLACK MUSIC MONTH

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Nelson George
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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…

2 min readMay 13, 2021

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

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Nelson George

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…

3 min readMay 3, 2021

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Nelson George

Life After Death in the Time of Covid-19

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

3 min readApr 21, 2021

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Life After Death in the Time of Covid-19

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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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