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KATHY´S SONG for a girl I never knew

One of those songs I loved on the radio was Kathy´s Song by Paul Simon with a beautiful little guitar riff behind lyrics of his yearning for a girl who lived in a different country,
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BEST BY AGREEMENT,….not quite

That one of my favourite music journalists, Matt Mitchell at Paste on-line magazine trundled through all the previous award winning albums at the annual Grammy awards there were only nine examples from all the decades for which he didn´t feel to compel his own ´should´ve won´award.
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KACEY MUSGRAVES:  DEEPER WELL

“Deeper Well” features everything you could want from a Musgraves track:
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Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON 45 Sunday supplement 24th March 2024

Thanks for turning to us in your search for arts- related news, previews, profiles, interviews and reviews. Today we look at how artists seek the right art space in which to create, We  preview an Easter Production of Jungle Book taking place close to such an art space in the UK. We also bing live jazz lkistings and news of Jazz on Air.
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BOOKS ABOUT TEXAN SONG-WRITERS

he on-line site and newsletter, Texas Monthly, however, reminds us that many Texan songwriters are subjected to the same scrutiny as Townes, each of them, perhaps for different reasons
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TOWNES VAN ZANDT: man, myth and memories

I have a vivid personal memory of an occasion when I was working as a freelance journalist alongside the independent and excellent Stampede Promotions, a small two man operation that pledged the best-but-overlooked American singer-writers to the UK on small tours of some perhaps unlikely places.
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SARAH JAROSZ, welcoming the future

There’s something in the way she uses her voice that is profoundly captivating—there’s a directness that conveys the nuance and clarity of her stories to the listener as though you are the only two people in the room
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NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

The nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2024 were announced recently.