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“Wichita Lineman” (Glen Campbell, The Meters)
I hear you singin’ in the wire, I can hear you through the whine Bob Dylan supposedly called Wichita Lineman the greatest song ever written. Songwriter Jimmy Webb, at just 21 years old, saw a guy working a tough and lonely job atop a telephone pole and turned that image into one of the most…
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“The Swimming Song” (Loudon Wainwright III/Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
This summer I might have drowned Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle are Canadian folk royalty and the parents of Rufus Wainwright, the Shrek “Hallelujah” guy. Just kidding, he’s had a lot of great contributions to music and theatre beyond covering Leonard Cohen on the Shrek soundtrack, I just continue to think it’s funny that…
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“Pepper” (Butthole Surfers/S.G. Goodman)
You never know just how to look through someone else’s eyes I remember the first time someone told me there was a band called The Butthole Surfers, partly because 14-year-old me was thrilled to learn there was a band with “butthole” in its name, and partly because this news was broken to me by a…
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