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Writing and Recording Acoustic Rock, Pt. 1

technology, 1969 was a most transformative year. A stellar synergetic example is how the BBC included rising star David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in its coverage of NASA’s spaceflight to the moon. We’re still feeling the ripple effect trickling down to the present. An iPhone packs more tech than it took to get to the Moon, and an app offers many more tracks than Bowie had a his disposal. I spent much of the past

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