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		<title>New Video: LIVE from the Paramount Theater in Austin, MN (and downloads, too)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hip Hooray! The Show is just beginning. Look out on a sea of faces, Each a little planet spinning… That&#8217;s part of the lyric from a song called &#8220;I Am&#8221; that I co-wrote with Linda Marks and Lisa Aschmann. Last year, I opened a great show at the beautifully restored Paramount Theater in Austin, MN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greetings, Friends, Fans, and now&#8230; Patrons!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patronage is a concept as old as the arts themselves. In the Renaissance, families of great means like the Medici&#8217;s became famous in part for their support of the great painters, sculptors, and musicians of the day. In the digital era, when so much has been disrupted by the advance of new media and models, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greater Gentlemen</title>
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		<title>Elektra Part 4: Freed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would rather bathe a cat than write this last chapter of the Elektra saga. I&#8217;ve procrastinated for weeks, weeding my yard, talking to the IRS, poking myself in the eye, anything to avoid writing about the demise of my record deal. Funny, it still bothers me. Once the tour was over I retreated to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danacoopermusic.com/elektra-part-4-freed</link>
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		<title>Elektra Tour Part 3: The Implosion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Part 2: The day after the accusatory dinner with the Atlanta radio program director, Roger (the promoter who maybe wasn&#8217;t doing his job&#8230;) took us for a drive up Lookout Mountain to another radio station that was spinning my record in heavy rotation. The Program Director there, a fellow named Frank, invited us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danacoopermusic.com/elektra-tour-part-3-the-implosion</link>
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		<title>Elektra Tour Part 2: From Phil Ochs to The Persuasions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phil Ochs was a ravaged man by the time I met him in Washington, D.C. at the legendary venue The Cellar Door. Once a vibrant activist singer/songwriter, he appeared to be bitter and frail now. He was still robust enough to out-drink Al and myself though (and we drank quite a bit). This truly was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hometown Boy Disclaimer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not too long after my Elektra LP was released, my hometown newspaper, the Independence Examiner, ran this feature story about my burgeoning career. Reading this article from the perspective of several decades later, I have determined that my brain was not yet fully developed. The connective tissue between my mouth and my still callow brain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danacoopermusic.com/hometown-boy-disclaimer</link>
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		<title>My Career As A Rock StarPart 1: I Pay For The Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I felt poleaxed standing in the middle of Tower Records Store on Sunset Boulevard. A thigh high block of stacked LPs, over 1,000 of them, sat fat together in prominent display, all with the same cover staring back at me and the face on the cover was mine. I wondered how many more thousands of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danacoopermusic.com/my-career-as-a-rock-starpart-1-i-pay-for-the-party</link>
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		<title>Elektra Records &#8211; 1973</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(If you missed the first installment of this saga, you can find it here.) (Listen to &#8220;Lover Baby Friend,&#8221; the first single from Dana Cooper&#8217;s 1973 debut LP, while reading the post that follows: 01 Lover, Baby, Friend by Dana Cooper - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A&amp;R Report: Meeting Dana Cooper  Reminiscence by Marlin Greene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Marlin Greene Los Angeles in the 70&#8242;s &#8211; Elektra Records &#8211; the house that Jac built. I occupied a small room in that house for a couple of years. My job description was assistant to Russ Miller, A &#38; R person for the West Coast. What that meant was that I was a nerve [...]]]></description>
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