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My Groove
1/19/2010
Love gone bad, love gone wrong, love gone out the door while you were passed out on the couch . . . For whatever reason, if this Valentine's Day finds you alone, dragging your feet down love's chilly b …
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Artist Essentials
1/19/2010
The name of this band is Talking Heads, and these innovators set themselves apart from the American punk scene with intellectual wordplay and the spastic antics of frontman David Byrne, all set to a de …
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Artist Essentials
1/19/2010
Few musicians master a musical style and call it their own - even fewer give birth to that style in the first place. But that's exactly Antonio Carlos Jobim did with the bossa nova. Jobim compos …
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Artist Essentials
1/19/2010
The first segment of Randy Travis' rich catalogue is appropriately bookended by his pledge of eternal love, "Forever and Ever, Amen," and his classic marriage-coming-apart song, "Reasons I Cheat." Be s …
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Artist Essentials
1/19/2010
It's a testament to Conway Twitty's influential talent and enduring appeal that he stayed in the country music Top 10 steadily throughout his decades-long career - from his 1958 breakthrough, "It's Onl …
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Genres & History
1/19/2010
The lo-fi end of the indie spectrum is out at the edge of a scene that's already out at the edge, so you can certainly expect some revelatory "who's that?" moments among these Deep Cuts. In "Chr …
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Genres & History
1/19/2010
The hiss of a thrift store tape machine, the simple mix available to a four-track, and the sometimes pained/sometimes ecstatic honesty of unfiltered emotion - such is the appeal of lo-fi indie rock, th …
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Artist Essentials
1/19/2010
Even when he opened up to his roots by recording a cover tune, Vic Chesnutt couldn't help but reveal the complexity that lurked deep in his emotional center. He managed to give his home state a shout-o …
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Artist Essentials
1/19/2010
Vic Chesnutt started out small - his sparsely produced debut album for the tiny Texas Hotel label wasn't called Little for nothing. But even back then, the world was already beginning to beat a …
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