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November 1

Week 599: “Tell Me” by Blick Bassy

Blick Bassy’s home country of Cameroon is an interesting place. For starters, it has a…

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October 25

Week 598: “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” by bob Dylan (Peter, Paul, and Mary cover)

If you were under the impression that manufactured pop groups were an invention of the…

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October 18

Week 597: “The Valley” by Ethan Gruska

On a Saturday morning in the 90s, while most other pre-teens were playing sports or…

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October 11

Week 596: “Martha Sways” by Andy Shauf

Some songwriters can craft a perfect micro-story in the form of a three-minute song, as…

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September 20

Week 593: “Infinite Trees” by Nick Mulvey

In the middle of the state of Utah, not far from Fish Lake but very…

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July 19

Week 584: “Lose This Number” by Christian Lee Hutson

On February 6, 2020, Christian Lee Hutson released the video for “Lose This Number,” ahead…

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June 28

Week 581: “Wide World” by Sophie Janna

Sophie Janna’s artist bio says that she makes music that “makes you forget where you…

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May 24

Week 576: “Watching Thus, The Heron is All Pool” by Bibio

Here’s something I’ve learned recently: herons are tricky birds to classify. I understand that classifying…

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May 3

Week 573: “Asheville Skies” by The Milk Carton Kids

They say that introverts spend a lot of time looking at their shoes. But if…

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March 22

Week 567: “Lakes” by Gia Margaret

I was talking recently to someone who had moved here from the coast, and they…

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February 15

Week 562: “New Slang” by The Shins

Despite the title, this song by The Shins has nothing to do with slang; in…

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February 8

Week 561: “Night After Sidewalk” by Kaki King

For obvious reasons, I haven’t taken the subway in almost a year, and I have…

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December 14

Week 553: “State Lines” by Novo Amor

I spent an awful lot of time looking at maps as a child. Any map…

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December 7

Week 552: “Liquid Blanket” by Matthew Solberg

It’s blanket season. Normally, peak blanket season is limited to those aimless, nebulous days between…

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September 21

Week 541: “Little Martha” by The Allman Brothers Band

Riding his Harley-Davidson through the streets of Macon, Georgia, in late October of 1971, Duane…

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September 7

Week 539: “Tomb” by Angelo De Augustine

This week’s song was suggested by a reader. Thanks, Madison! It’s back-to-school season where I…

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July 20

Week 532: “New South Africa” by Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn

The term “power couple” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016, and defined…

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July 6

Week 530: “Above All Else, Be Kind” by Ajimal

When Cameron Lyle was in his second year at the University of New Hampshire, he…

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April 27

Week 520: “Lullaby” by Frantz Casseus

When I was preparing to be a dad, one of the decisions I spent the…

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April 6

Week 517: “The Boy in the Gap” by Martin Hayes Quartet

Despite being open to just about every genre of music, I have always had a…

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