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• Song of the Day #1,277: ‘Love and Hard Times’ – Paul Simon

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  Top Ten Songs of 2011 – #3 As my series of Paul Simon Weekends comes close to wrapping up, I hope I’ve made a strong case for his spot atop my list of favorite songwriters. For 50 years he has led listeners on a musical journey as sublime as it [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,276: ‘Road Song’ – Fountains of Wayne

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  Top Ten Songs of 2011 – #4 Fountains of Wayne has been churning out pitch-perfect pop songs for 15 years now, and in 2011′s Sky Full of Holes they might just have released their best collection yet. This was a more tightly focused effort than their previous albums — less [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,275: ‘Copenhagen’ – Lucinda Williams

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  Top Ten Songs of 2011 – #5 Resuming my countdown of my top ten songs of last year, I arrive at a poignant track from Lucinda Williams latest album, Blessed. Blessed came out early in 2011 and has been somewhat off my radar over the past several months as I [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,274: ‘Father and Daughter’ – Paul Simon

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  When I wrote yesterday that I never revisit Paul Simon’s Surprise, I left out one major exception. ‘Father and Daughter,’ the album’s closing track, first turned up on the soundtrack to The Wild Thornberrys Movie before finding a home on Simon’s own album. I suspect he considered it too good [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,273: ‘Everything About It Is a Love Song’ – Paul Simon

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  Paul Simon waited six years between You’re the One and his next studio release, 2006′s Surprise. But he wasn’t slacking off. In 2003, Simon reunited with Garfunkel for a memorable performance of ‘The Sounds of Silence’ at the Grammys. That appearance led to a reunion tour that spanned two years [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,272: ‘Trailer For Rent’ – Pistol Annies

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  Top Ten Songs of 2011 – #6 Miranda Lambert is responsible for two of my top three albums this year: her fourth solo album, Four the Record, and Hell On Heels, the digital-only debut of Pistol Annies, a group formed with two friends and fellow songwriters, Angeleena Presley and Ashley [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,271: ‘Believe It When I See It’ – Ron Sexsmith

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  Top Ten Songs of 2011 – #7 Another year, another stellar Ron Sexsmith album that goes completely unnoticed by the general public. What I find interesting is that when I look up reviews of Sexsmith’s work, invariably the critics heap him with praise and bemoan his lack of popularity. But [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,270: ‘That Power’ – Childish Gambino

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  Top Ten Songs of 2011 – #8 Childish Gambino’s full-length debut, Camp, is the best rap album I’ve heard in years. Donald Glover is a gifted rapper and an even more gifted lyricist, spitting hilarious, often thought-provoking, rhymes over meaty beats that belie the lack of star power behind the [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,269: ‘Baggage Claim’ – Miranda Lambert

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  Top Ten Songs of 2011 – #9 Miranda Lambert’s Four the Record is my favorite album of 2011, so it might seem weird that its only song on my top ten countdown is sitting at #9. But I think the album’s overall strength and consistency keeps it from having the [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,268: ‘Uncharted’ – Sara Bareilles

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  Top Ten Songs of 2011 – #10 If I had to pick one word to describe singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, it would be ‘endearing.’ She has an endearing personality, as she demonstrated in her adorable stint as a judge on The Sing-Off. She makes endearing videos, such as the one for [...]
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