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WELL OF SOULS

So vividly does [Kristina Gaddy] write, and so enthusiastically does she convey her meaning, that many of the songs play unbidden in your mind, through the rhythm of her sentences, the lyric of her vocabulary. As much as Well Of Souls is a gripping, fascinating, story, it is also a beautifully written one...a novel in documentary's clothing. Dave Thompson - Goldmine
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RIDING ON A PONY ON A BOAT

Lines like God might forgive you but I won´t or ther spectacular ´riding on my pony on my boat´ that came early in Lovett´s career and Mary Chapin Carpenter´s ´fantasy league´pairing of Dwight Yoaken and Lovett promised to place Lyle in the category of a writer´s writer and I expected his albums to slot on to my shelves somewhere between Kristofferson and Newbury,
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PATTI SMITH SPEAKS OF WRITING

´I have always loved books and decided very young I wanted to write them, but I wasn’t certain how to go about it until I read Little Women
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MAJOR VOICE SPEAKS OF MAJOR LABELS

"Kelefa Sanneh has achieved the impossible. Major Labels somehow manages to unspool everything you need to know about 50 years of music, but more impressively, he makes you care about all of it. Even the stuff you don't care about. It's funny, it's personal and as a piece of writing, the book borders on poetry." --David Letterman (left)

WHEN DID JACK FIRST HIT THE ROAD?

come follow your art down Sidetracks And Detours, clicking your fingers, and mumbling no more, no more, no more, no more,  as we look to AN American Songwriter for an explanation.
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LOOKING TO GET LOST?

"You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us,"

LET THE MYSTERY BE?

I realize looking back I thought it would be like this. I mean, I got the call to write and sing. I knew that. I didn’t get the call to sell millions of records. The voice didn’t say, “Hey Iris, you’re gonna go be a star.” I didn’t hear that voice. … All I knew was I was told to do music, to write and sing for people. If fifteen people hear it, if five hundred thousand people hear it, that’s really not my concern. Never was. It still isn’t. I feel like when I make a record, I love it and I care about it. I want people to hear it. But if I do my job and nobody does, I will sleep fine with that.
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´GUILTY NARRATORS´ PARDONED ?

when a gifted artist allows the guilty narrator to sabotage his own message and allows us to see the dangerous tendencies in every human being, the virus becomes a vaccine that protects us all, suggests Geoffrey Himes
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CUP  FINALS  EVERY  NIGHT

we were stars with twinkling feet playing at Wembley on a cobbles street and playing our cup finals every night
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ACROSS THE BORDER

traces a musical journey from the Gulf Coast to interior Mexico and across the border