Carl Perkins
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Music & Books, by Influence.
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- Dispatch No. 9 Led Zeppelin was always on the radio, or at least it seemed that way. You could flip to …
- Dispatch No. 8 Listening to Social Distortion brings me back to Camp Pendleton in the early 2000s. I grew up listening …
- Dispatch No. 7 There’s something about having a character that you want to root for in a story. I tried watching …
- Dispatch No. 6 The George Smiley box set by John le Carré arrived yesterday. I'm halfway through A Murder of Quality, …
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Musicians and writers, their influences, and who they influenced.
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Chet Atkins
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Janis Joplin
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John le Carré
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Ernest Hemingway
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