Washington Post Music Writer Chris Richards’ story “The Mothership: Lost In Space,” and two Washington Post Magazine stories were selected for reprint in Da Capo’s “Best Music Writing of 2011.”
The introduction reads:
“Three stories in the collection — all of them, coincidentally, published by the Washignton Post — shows how music is woven into the fabric of cities and neighborhoods. Lauren Wilcox Puchowski follows a wedding singer named Kenney Holmes, who argues for his profession in the face of couples who want to play songs off their iPods, Jason Cherkis hangs out with Ian Nagoski, a fanatical Baltimore record collector who, while working at the the True Vine store, came into possession of 78-rpm records by the Greek singer Marika Papagika and almost single-handedly spearheaded a revival of interest in her. And, in a piece that quickly became legendary among pop scribes, Chris Richards goes in search of the Mothership, the spectacular Parliament-Funkadelic stage prop, which was last seen in a junkyard behind a gas station in Prince Georges’ County, Maryland.”
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