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Somewhere in the distance, an inbred kid is playing a series of beckoning banjo chords… Anyone who knows me well
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In the grand scheme of time, 8 months is not even a blink of the eye. But it was long
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Before I begin this review, let us please dispense with the term “grunge” as a way to describe music and
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