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Jan. 19, 2023

Dolly Parton is Catfishing Me

From the "Things I Didn't Expect to be Sharing This Week" file... I got an email yesterday, the sender line of which said Dolly Parton. I'm not on Dolly's email list, so I thought it a little odd. Then I saw the subject line: "LOVELY TAGGED CONTENT…

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Sept. 23, 2022

The Concert of a Lifetime: Cody Fry and Friends

I want to preface this by saying, right upfront: unlike my meeting with Paul McCartney, the following account 100% actually happened. #IWillNeverTellALie Last night I, along with JP and our wives, had the absolute pleasure of attending the one-nigh…

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June 17, 2022

The Song That Doesn't End (In My Head) - Meet Generation Radio

There's been a song stuck in my head for weeks now. It's on a loop, and every day that I think I might have forgotten about it, it comes roaring back.  It's the debut single by a new supergroup, Generation Radio: "Why Are You Calling Me Now?" …

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May 19, 2022

I Accidentally Interviewed Paul McCartney

Last night I found myself in NYC, at an off-broadway performance of Love Never Dies, the less-famous sequel to my favorite musical of all time, The Phantom of the Opera. I'd seen it before in Atlanta, and though my reception to the original album w…

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May 3, 2022

Deceptive Song Intros

You ever hear a song that starts with maybe one instrument playing, and then when you hear the full band or groove kick in you realize the beat is in an entirely different zip code than you thought? That's what we're calling, for our purposes, a&nb…

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April 29, 2022

Six (More) Guitarists for a Van Halen Tribute Tour

JP Responds to Rob's previous post on the topic of a dream lineup for a Van Halen tribute tour... I’m going to throw out a Fresh Six just to get some more names on this list. I love the Satch (for the Chickenfoot/Hagar Chemistry. Not to menti…

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March 29, 2022

The Cheesiest Record I Own

(This is not a sponsored post. It's gonna seem like it, but it's not.) Occasionally we get promotional emails from PR firms and artist management teams who want to make sure we know what's going on and coming up from their artists. We welcome it, a…

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