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G. Love's tour diary - Detroit Soul

We are on the second week of our six-week tear here. Last night found us in Detroit. I was chilling eating my dinner before the show, and what was on TV but 8 Mile. I had to watch it because Eminem is from Detroit, and, in all honestly, the freestyle is inspiration, plus the whole movie is dope. 8 Mile put me in a Detroit state of mind. There was a hell of a lot of good music that came out and is coming out of Detroit. John Lee Hooker, Stevie Wonder and Motown, right? Recently, other peeps like Em,...  read more

Jack White pens poem for Detroit

Over-achieving Shaun Brumber gets some warm words from his literary hero at the end of 2002 college-admissions flick Orange County: "Every good writer has a conflicted relationship with the place he grew up," the good writer moralizes. Examples? "Joyce, Faulkner, Tolstoy."...  read more