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For The Sake Of The Song: Jerry Jeff Walker “Mr Bojangles”
Ronald Clyde Crosby was born in 1942 in Oneonta, a small city in Otsego County, New York, but to you and me, and the rest of the musical world, he was better known as Jerry Jeff […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “My Favorite Mistake”
These days, Sheryl Crow lives in Nashville, which makes perfect sense for an act whose music was always country-inflected. Nobody called her americana when she emerged in the 1990s at the vanguard of Women In Rock, […]
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For the Sake of the Song: David Ford “Cheer Up (You Miserable F*ck)”
It has been twenty years since the release of “I Sincerely Apologise for All the Trouble I Have Caused”, an album that, according to David Ford, in his wryly entertaining autobiography I Choose This, was a […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Gillian Welch “Everything Is Free”
It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time in the early-00s when music piracy was the hot topic. At the turn of the millennium, Metallica member Lars Ulrich famously took the free file-sharing service […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Jackson Browne “For America”
There are so many songs that resonate and you want to include them in this Feature because they have a personal impact on you, but sometimes you just have to suck it up and feature a […]