Thomas Oliver: Recent Episodes
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Outside the outer perimeter lies a land scorched by spontaneous combustion, split by a meandering, wild river barging trouble. Passing through another grasshopper town you are nearing vistas of grapes where you will watch the crushing and fermenting of all more »
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The music world is ever changing (requiring new music players on this page, more about further down) but still retains some of the frustrating distribution hassles. For me, it has been a nearly five-year struggle to get my single “Rescue more »
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Jesus Called pdf By Thomas Oliver She really didn’t mind his smoking although she always insisted to friends and strangers that she was allergic. Rather than complain, she cracked the car window and let in the cold wind more »
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© Thomas Oliver Blue Lights We knew a place we could go after the picture show Park the car, make out watch airplanes land and take off Blue lights on the runway looked like the stars had fallen more »
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Last year, through reading Jim Harrison, one of my favorite writers, I discovered a new poetic form — the ghazal, pronounced gutturally more like “guzzle.” It is an old Persian form that has been Americanized beyond some of the purists’ sensibilities. more »
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Beethoven Notes muting themselves in a breeze sometime whirlwind — symphonic silence. Hound A beagle’s more »
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Sometimes my stone-cold country roots just take over my songwriting and out pops an “old” country song. Such is the case with “No One Talks About You,” a love-lost, tear–in-your-beer ballad. The difference in this and my earlier old country more »
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We have been sheltered temporarily on Chimney Creek since October. Shortly after we moved in, Melissa’s kayak was stolen — truly adding insult to injury. When I mentioned it to my friend and long-time Tybee resident, he said, well, you know more »
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Sometimes I feel obligated to write a song, especially when one comes along that compels attention. Such was the case when I read a local headline that declared: “Meth Lab Busted on Moon River.” The Muse more »
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