The Flames.

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Doing a ditty narrative spaghetti western written by a Texas oil heir on a coliseum stage in late 20th Century Italy is an appropriate repertoire choice from a consistent song and muse chaser like Dylan nee Bobby Z...On a much smaller scale see Boise, Idaho by way of PoTown, Ore troubador Nick Delffs once of the bands Shaky Hands and Doom Songs channel his own musically improvised, emotionally spooked and yet lyrically true to song-maker Townes Van Zandt's "Lungs" (as Delffs has also done with that rare cover Leonard Cohen did on his first live record released by Columbia back in early 1970's, and like Townes' writing as current as yesterday's headlines namely "Passing Through" first written after WW II by folk song loving U. of California Northridge Prof Dick Blakeslee).

Bruce Dern was Dean Karnazes before Dean Karnazes could walk. An unabashed running junkie, from the ages of 28 to 70, the actor clocked between 2,500 and 4,000 miles a year. Between auditions and bit roles, he'd run the California missions, which are spaced about 30 miles apart, or tackle Lake Tahoe's 72-mile perimeter. This was the 1960s, well before the marathon boom. There were no spectators, no finisher's medals, no Gatorade. Then again, the inimitable 77-year-old has always been a pioneer, on screen and on the road.