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Little Red Bike

1/23/2016

This piece started writing itself in my mind seven months ago. It was inspired by an event and a song that will now be forever linked in my memory. What is it about a song that seems to capture the essence of a moment?

How is it that an artist can seize an experience and an emotion in a three minute melody, saying more with less, each line so precise, so minimal, that it actually expands our understanding?

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J.M. McSpadden III is a writer and a roots music enthusiast who believes that every life needs to find its own soundtrack, and every road trip is an opportunity to full tilt boogie. Let's face it, people, a car ain't nothin' but a stereo on wheels.

He currently writes for The Flame, and has contributed some fifty articles to Nodepression.com. He also freelances for Richmond's premiere weekly paper, Style Weekly. Look for his work to appear in the fall and winter issues of Okra Magazine, a great new mag about southern culture.Also look for his contributions to deeprootsmag.org.
He is currently at work on a short story. Death in the desert, the Devil's highway, and all that.

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