American - Musician | September 13, 1967 -
Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.
Shawn Amos
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When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.
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Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.
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We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all.
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At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union.
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The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.
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In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
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Technology has the benefit of being easily scalable. A few weeks or months of coding can result in solutions that reap huge benefits. The global success of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are all triumphs of technology.
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I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.
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The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.
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The Dolls were the forefathers of glam. You never knew if they were going to kiss you or punch you. More than likely, they'd do both.
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Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.
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