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Singer, songwriter, guitar player, DAN PENN. PENN has written soul music classics like "Do Right Woman," "Cry Like a Baby," "Sweet Inspiration," and "I'm Your Puppet." His compositions have been made famous by the likes of Aretha Franklin, James Carr, Percy Sledge, Solomon Burke and Otis Redding. PENN left his tiny hometown of Vernon, Alabama when he was sixteen. . . a white kid, singing like Ray Charles and in love with black music. Now, 36 years later, Penn performed his own songs on his album released last year, "Do Right Man." (Warner Brothers, Sire Label) (REBROADCAST FROM 4

McSweeney's contributor Dan Kennedy found what he thought was a dream job in the music industry: Director of Creative Development at Atlantic Records. Rock on: an Office Power Ballad is the tale of his time at the label — where he arrived just in time for what he describes as the collapse of the music business.

The upstart candidate for Albany County executive has gotten a boost from a populist Democratic leader.Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout, who led an…

“Dad, the Perseid meteorite shower is easy to see in the sky the next few nights. How about we drive out of Albany where it’s dark enough to…

In December, the arborists came to our backyard to prune our locust tree, some of whose larger branches had died and were breaking off from the trunk. The…

As an avid winter hiker, one of my favorite endeavors is walking across local bodies of frozen water. From the tiny frog ponds of Delmar’s Pine Hollow…

A friend of mine is dragging me kicking and screaming into creating a social media presence. Like a personal trainer who refuses to let his lazy,…

Once, when my siblings and I were very young, my parents made the mistake of putting me and my brother in charge of our sister while they went out for an…

There is an ancient Jewish legend about a wonder-working sage who hid with his son from their oppressors in a cave for twelve years. During that time,…

In an episode of the animated sitcom, Bojack Horseman, a movie mogul and her team rush to save their new film that features an orgy of gun violence, after…