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The Basic Needs

Haunted, But Happy to Be Here

Jana Hunter was sure that the turn of the century would bring the apocalypse, that Y2K would spell the end for mankind. But, she told herself at the time, should life go on, she would secretly install speakers throughout Houston, Texas that would play her all-time favorite CD: a collection of Greek Byzantine liturgical songs […]

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Night of the Hunter

Jana Hunter’s Haunted Texas Melodies

The night before writing this article, I had a dream about my interview with Jana Hunter. In the dream, Hunter went to great lengths to stress that she wasn’t an old-timey singer. She was entirely contemporary, she told me, and she was tired of music writers pegging her as a throwback to haunted AM radio […]

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