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  • About
    • Milkmen Bio 2017
    • Milkmen Bio 2000
    • Milkmen Bio 1982
    • Lory Kohn Bio
  • Silo of Hits
    • Songlab (2018)
    • Songlab Instrumentals
    • Dairy Aire (2000)
    • Spilt Milk (MM Classics 1980-1985)
    • Milk Country
    • The Wholly Milk Trinity
    • RIP Kevin "Chocolate Milk" Jackson
    • Silicon Rebels (Instrumental - 1989)
    • Monk Music (2003)
    • Jock Rock (2003)
    • LK Demos
    • Vote Them Out 2020
  • Licensing
  • Dates
  • Contact
  • Pix & Videos
    • 1980s Milkmen pix
    • 1980s Milkmen Pix II
    • 2000 Milkmen pix
    • Recent Milkmen Pix
    • Videos
    • J-50
  • Milk Lore
    • Press
    • Eng Lit Prof reviews Songlab
  • Blog
  • LK Prose
    • Naropa
    • Dick
    • DC Flashback
    • Copywriting
    • Bovine Serenade
    • LK Writing and Editing Samples
    • Pasadena Post

Aug 23 2022

"I Should've Stayed at Laurie's" Resurrected!

Three plastic storage bins worth of passé storage media: reel-to-reel mixdown tapes, analog cassettes, VHS home movies. A runaway mixdown and a disappeared DAT tape. Digital dilemmas and divine intervention. Heart-stopping drama and a comedy of errors. A longstanding-quest and…

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Apr 21 2022

And Now a Word From Our (Inadvertent) Sponsors ...

Milkmaids and milkmates from Ecuador to Estonia have been getting after me to refocus this blog on the Men of Milk. You were mildly amused when I assumed the role of musicologist, studiously analyzing the merits and warts of more…

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Sep 4 2021

Old School Critiques of YouTube Videos: #3, XTC, "Earn Enough For Us"

The opening scene of Gilmore Girls Season 1 Episode 12 parlays Britpop 'n pop tarts as hot thirtysomething mom Lorelai and teenage babe-spawn Rory ready themselves for work and school. The punchy, psychedelic-tinged soundtrack that practically leapt out of my…

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Mar 24 2021

Old School Critiques of YouTube Videos: #2, Jay Livingston and Mr. Ed, "The Mr. Ed Theme"

Sixty years later, the goofy "The Mr. Ed Theme," crooned by by a talking horse stabled inside a suburban barn and a song pitcher, remains indelibly etched in the collective unconscious. "A horse is a horse of course of course"…

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Mar 5 2021

Old School Critiques of YouTube Videos: #1, The Rolling Stones, "Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown"

"Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown" never really flipped me when it came out in 1966. Apparently, it just needed a little time—a mere fifty-five years is all it took—to grow on me.

First Impressions
Here we have a pro shoot of the…

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Mar 2 2021

Old School Critiques of YouTube Videos: Series Preview

A lot of folks ineligible for Social Security might be astounded to learn just how much "ink" print media lavished on music reviews in the sixties and seventies. Magazine spreads ran two, three, four pages or even longer. Eagerly-anticipated albums…

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Sep 9 2020

MM dig deep to save the free world, drop "Vote Them Out!"

With other accomplished songsmiths content to regurgitate past glories from their stay-at-home digs, the task of penning an uplifting anthem for our phantasmagoric times fell to the all-but-forgotten Men of Milk. With nothing less than the future of the free…

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Apr 11 2020

That Time I Met Peter Townshend

On a cloudy June night in 1970, with the hippy era in full swing, Jon Cells and I found ourselves waiting for our guitars and backpacks at a baggage carousel in the Mile High City. Air travel was beyond the…

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Jan 22 2020

"The Color of Hay" Marks LK's 7th Decade of Songwriting!

It all started in the swingin' 60s, at the height of what was being called the folk craze, with "Marijuana Smoke," a burst of juvenalia about the joys of weed that remained stashed away ... until now! Here it is…

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Sep 23 2019

All of Naropa posted!

Beat poets. Tibetan Buddhists. Free love. Cults. Evocative hotels. Prophecies. Rocky mountain strongholds. Vajra Guards. 80s Saturnalias. Pure unadulterated decadence. Lovely trios. You name it, Naropa's got it all! So why is a band site giving bandwidth to prose?

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Sep 14 2019

First excerpt from "Naropa"

As previously threatened, here's a little taste of Naropa, one of my favorite memoirs. Feels like it would be right at home with the other excerpts in Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Great Times that I…

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Jul 18 2019

Bring On The Memoirs

If you like your lyrics "smart, but not too smart," Milkman Lory Kohn may be your kind of writer. If you also like your prose smart, but not too smart," Lory Kohn may be your kind of writer…

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Mar 29 2019

"The Milkmen Are On Our Radar!"

A glowing, shimmering, often dazzling object has been detected nearing the crosshairs centered within the Colorado Music Hall of Fame's radar sweep. Could the mysterious blip be Songlab, the Milkmen's orbiting recording studio? They utilized the space pod to…

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Jan 3 2019

Demystifying Dairy Aire

I've noticed that our newfound international fans inevitably gravitate toward Songlab (our latest collection from 2016-2018) or Spilt Milk (our earliest collection from 1980-1985). Yet hardly anyone lands on Dairy Aire (our equally vibrant mid-career collection from 1999-2001). 

So…

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Sep 1 2018

The strange saga of "Love Won't Listen"

Imagine if one of your most fervent desires was to collect royalties from the untold thousands of hours you've spent refining the crafts of songwriting and music production—yet you'd spent decades believing you'd never earned a single penny from it. 

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May 8 2018

Milkmen are finalists for Best Song in the 2018 New Mexico Music Awards!

The Milkmen won the KBCO Best Song in Colorado title for "Lolita" in ... this is not a misprint ... 1981. 

Now they're finalists for Best Song in New Mexico for "Head and Heart" — 37 years later. 

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Dec 29 2017

The Milkmen vs ...

What if the virtually unknown Men of Milk have actually out-written and out-recorded some of the biggest names in rock history? Well, if it's true, that and $5 buys me a triple latté at Starbucks. Crazy as it sounds, it's…

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