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WHO´LL COME CALLING ON HALLOWEEN ?
Americans spend an estimated $6 billion annually on Halloween, making it the country’s second largest commercial holiday after Christmas.
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WES MCGHEE; SONGS OF NEON AND DUST
"the subconscious comes out when you're writing, and there are all sorts of wild theories about why that is, but I'd rather not know why."
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MIRANDA LAMBERT: a real Pistol Annie
´I don't write about angels, Jesus, happy days, kids. I grew up on drinkin', cheatin', love gone bad,´
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NOT GOING OUT & NOT STAYING IN
So, I have of late been beavering away on face book seeking new contacts, fellow supporters of jazz, jazz clubs and jazz groups. I think post corona virus I have a readymade list of new music, places and friends to see.
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GARY HALL: A RECONSTRUCTION
I felt for those people: the sheer anger, and pity, affected my songs and added the sweet and sour they might have lacked had my parents been dentists bringing me up in Suburbia.
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SONGS ABOUT THE MOON
enough songs about the moon to fill space
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WILL SMITH IS BACK IN THE ´HOOD
the reunion that nobody ever expected is about to happen
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THAT WHICH WE CALL A ROSE is Americana music
the music I most love will always sound as sweet to me, whether they call it c & w, country, alt.country or, as at present, Americana
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WRITING ABOUT A LYRICIST AND JOURNALIST:
the music and the play seemed to stir the soul.
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I DON´T QUITE KNOW HOW TO SAY THIS
´you could tell a joke in standard English and it might not raise a laugh. But put it into local dialect, and it's reet funny!´