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10/13/04
Did Kerry Really Flop on the War?
10/12/04
Stealing Nevada?
10/07/04
News Vet Bill Moyers Raps 'the Rapture'
10/01/04
Minnewisowa' -- A New Political Super-state
09/29/04
Don't Be So Quick To Dismiss Blogosphere
09/28/04
SMiLE: Wilsonian Democracy
09/27/04
In Minnesota, a Victory for Open Democracy
09/24/04
More Iraqi Civilians Killed
By U.S. Forces Than By Insurgents

09/23/04
A Sham Election Law's Pure Pedigree
09/22/04
Iraq: There Are Terrible
Ways To Do a Good Thing

09/20/04
Put Independence Party
Back on Ballot

09/11/04
9/11: The View
from Ground Zero

09/09/04
John Kerry Needs a New Set of Frames
08/30/04
In News Biz, It's Whatever Floats Your Swift Boat
08/27/04
CBS: FBI Hunts for Spy in Pentagon
08/23/04
Brian Wilson Finally Flashes 'Smile'
08/16/04
Memo to Dems:
Misunderestimate Bush
--at Your Own Peril

08/10/04
Do You Mind if We
Go On Background?

08/05/04
Why St. Paul's DFL
Mayor Supports Bush

08/02/04
Judge Corrals Kiffmeyer's
Ballot Reforms

Additional past Kevblogs


Selected published articles

Run, Ralph, Run (But I Won't Vote for You) -- St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 11, 2004

Friendless in St. Paul -- MNPolitics.com, May 10, 2004

Don't Stop Treating Third Parties Fairly -- Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 25, 2004 (with Tim Penny)

Killed Bill: Minnesota Senate Squelches Attempt To Choke Off Third Parties -- MNPolitics.com, April 16, 2004

My iBook Failed Me -- St. Paul Pioneer Press, Jan. 7, 2004

Did the Star Tribune Minnesota Poll Destroy Tim Penny's Campaign? -- Minnesota Law & Politics, March 2003

Digital Video Recording Changes TV For Good -- St. Paul Pioneer Press, Feb. 9, 2003

Distraught Over Son's Disappearance, Mom Says Downtown 'Dangerous' -- Skyway News, Dec. 19, 2002

Major Label First: Unencrypted MP3 For Sale Online -- Newsbytes.com, May 23, 2002

Eskola and Wurzer: The Odd Couple -- Minnesota Law & Politics, January 2002

U.S. on Verge of 'Electronic Martial Law' -- Newsbytes.com, Oct. 16, 2001

Disorder in the Court -- Minnesota Law & Politics, October 2001

Stopping Bin Laden: How Much Surveillance Is Too Much? -- Newsbytes.com, Sept. 25, 2001

Verizon Works 'Round The Clock' On Dead N.Y. Phone Lines -- Newsbytes.com, Sept. 13, 2001

Artificial Intelligence: Help Wanted - AI Pioneer Minsky -- Newsbytes.com, Aug. 31, 2001

More past published articles



The Kevrock Dept.

This is the cover of my home-recorded 2002 CD, "Gettysburg." Linked selections are available to be played as MP3 files.


Gettysburg, copyright 2002, Kevin Featherly


Track Listing

  • Seaweed Boots (Featherly/Koester)
  • She Sees Me (K. Featherly)
  • She Knows Me Too Well (Brian Wilson)
  • Salt Mama (K. Featherly)
  • Another Age (K. Featherly)
  • So Special (K. Featherly)
  • Bring it on Home (Sam Cooke)
  • Being Free (K. Featherly)
  • Tammy (K. Featherly)
  • River City Blues (K. Featherly)
  • Beware of Darkness (George Harrison)
  • Gettysburg (K. Featherly)
  • Minong at Midnight (K. Featherly)
  • Violent State of Mind (Nate Featherly)
  • Don't Do It (Featherly/Featherly/Koester)
  • Save the World (Koester)
  • The Grave Song (Featherly/Koester)

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101 Albums You
Must Hear ... Part 2

Posted 10:56 p.m., April 17, 2006


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The list so far (numbers 1 through 50).

1.) "The Beatles" (The White Album), The Beatles (1968).

2.) "OK Computer," Radiohead (1997).

3.) "Smile," Brian Wilson (2004).

4.) "In the Wee, Small Hours," Frank Sinatra (1955).

5.) "The Village Green Preservation Society," The Kinks (1968).

6.) "Hank Williams' Greatest Hits," Hank Williams (1961).

7.) "Highway 61 Revisited," Bob Dylan (1965).

8.) "Nevermind," Nirvana (1991).

9.) "Forever Changes," Love (1967).

10.) "Younger than Yesterday," The Byrds (1967).

11.) "At Yankee Stadium," NRBQ (1978).

12.) "Moanin'," Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1958).

13.) "Let it Be," the Replacements (1984).

14.) "Today!" The Beach Boys (1965).

15.) "Demon Days," The Gorillaz (2005).

16.) "Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West," Johnny Cash (1965).

17.) "London Calling," The Clash (1979).

18.) "The Soft Bulletin," The Flaming Lips (1999).

19.) "The Harder They Come," Jimmy Cliff (1972).

20.) "Pet Sounds," The Beach Boys (1966).

21.) "Straight Up," Badfinger (1971).

22.) "A Salty Dog," Procol Harum (1969).

23.) "Miles Smiles," The Miles Davis Quintet (1966).

24.) "Muswell Hillbillies," The Kinks (1971).

25.) "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," The Beatles (1967).

26.) "Rust Never Sleeps," Neil Young (1979).

27.) "Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire," The Kinks (1969).

28.) "John Wesley Harding," Bob Dylan (1967)

29.) "The Band," The Band (1969).

30.) "All Things Must Pass," George Harrison (1970).

31.) "Barabajagal," Donovan (1969).

32.) "Tonight's the Night," Neil Young (1975).

33.) "Oddesey and Oracle," The Zombies (1968).

34.) "Revolver," The Beatles (1966).

35.) "Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton," John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1966).

36.) "Jerusalem," Steve Earle (2002).

37.) "Brilliant Corners," Thelonius Monk (1956).

38.) "From Elvis in Memphis," Elvis Presley (1969).

39.) "Beggar's Banquet," The Rolling Stones (1968).

40.) "Rehearsals for Retirement," Phil Ochs (1969).

41.) "Parklife," Blur (1994).

42.) "The Soul of a Man: Al Kooper Live," Al Kooper (1995).

43.) "Electric Ladyland," The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968).

44.) "Blood on the Tracks," Bob Dylan (1975).

45.) "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band," John Lennon (1970).

46.) "Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely," Frank Sinatra (1959).

47.) "Innervisions," Stevie Wonder (1973).

48.) "Morrison Hotel," The Doors (1970).

49.) "10,000 Years," The Honeydogs (2003).

50.) "Super Hits," Marvin Gaye (1970).

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Kevin Featherly, a former managing editor at Washington Post Newsweek Interactive, is a Minnesota journalist who covers politics and technology. He has authored or contributed to five previous books, Guide to Building a Newsroom Web Site (1998), The Wired Journalist (1999), Elements of Language (2001), Pop Music and the Press (2002) and Encyclopedia of New Media (2003). His byline has appeared in Editor & Publisher, the San Francisco Chronicle, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Online Journalism Review and Minnesota Law and Politics, among other publications. In 2000, he was a media coordinator for Web, White & Blue, the first online presidential debates. Currently is news editor for the McGraw-Hill tech publication, Healthcare Informatics.

Copyright 2004, by Kevin Featherly


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