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ISSUE #35.52 • SPECIAL SECTION •

35 Years, 35 Songs


Our essential Portland mixtape, ’74 to ’09.

BY CASEY JARMAN & MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | cjarman at wweek dot com, mmannheimer at wweek dot com

[November 4th, 2009]

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LISTEN: Streaming songs from “35 Songs, 35 Years” at wweek.com/mixtape35.


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Jamie Stewart  writes on Nov 5th, 2009 1:23pm

Yet 35 more reasons I love Portland

Rick Edwards  writes on Nov 16th, 2009 1:31pm

Thanks for remembering the Wasted Rangers! I was blown away to see that you picked the only song that I sung lead on! Hank, Ron, Bill and Tom are going to kill me after they accuse me of payola. I'm still in Rock and Roll in NYC. I work at www.morrisonhotelgallery.com.

Ron Stephens  writes on Nov 16th, 2009 9:02pm

Thanks for including us (Wasted Rangers). It's quite a surprise. It's also surprising that our proto-Distractions 45 with Jon Koonce, "Deep In The Night" wasn't mentioned.

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BY NIGEL JAQUISS | The gay rights crusader cut her teeth in Portland.
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BY AARON MESH | From sandwich maker to promising filmmaker.
A Cause And A Crisis
BY ETHAN SMITH | Portland’s stance on two defining issues, then and now.
Loggers To Bloggers
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The Price Is Right
BY BEN WATERHOUSE | Paying for stuff in 1974 and today.
Portrait Of A City Block
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Hair Play
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35 Years, 35 Songs
BY CASEY JARMAN, MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | Our essential Portland mixtape, ’74 to ’09.
Class Pictures
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Our Own Private Hollywood
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Portland Style Then & Now
BY ERIN FLESCH, ETHAN SMITH | What’s gone. What’s Back. What never left.
The Covers
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