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• Song of the Day #1,523: ‘February’ – Dar Williams

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  Initially I wasn’t sure if I should include Dar Williams in the set of artists I’m examing for the musical genome project. I own most but not all of her albums, and I know only a couple of them by heart. She has released her share of generic Lilith Fair [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,522: ‘Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967′ – John Mayer

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  Some frequent readers of this blog might consider it appropriate that I’m posting a John Mayer song on September 11 — one painful experience commemorating another, or something like that. I know Mayer has many detractors, but he also has legions of fans, a surprising number of which are critics. [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,521: ‘Brighter Still’ – Ron Sexsmith

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  Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith straddles the line between ‘Folk Rock Derivative’ and ‘Pure Pop’ in my musical genome. He got his start as a folk singer before expanding his sound over a dozen or so albums to include pop and jazz influences. He never has delved into country, though, so [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,520: ‘One Foot Wrong’ – Pink

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  This is an appropriate random selection for the middle of my musical genome project. I like Pink. I like her songs, I like her voice, I like her attitude. And I really like the one album of hers I own, 2008′s Funhouse, from which this SOTD is pulled. And yet, [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,519: ‘Dink’s Song’ – Bob Dylan

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  Volume 7 of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series is the companion soundtrack to Martin Scorsese’s excellent Dylan documentary No Direction Home. The album, like the film, traces Dylan’s development as an artist from his earliest days through his electric phase, culminating with the famous “Royal Albert Hall” concert where an angry [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,518: ’50 Ways to Leave Your Lover’ – Paul Simon

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  My next ‘Folk Rock Derivative’ artist is both a perfect example of the genre and an argument for scrapping the concept of musical categorization altogether. Nobody can argue that Paul Simon isn’t a folk rock artist — the man practically invented the genre when paired with Art Garfunkel in the [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,517: ‘The Cigar Song’ – Brad Paisley

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  I probably never would have considered including a ‘Country Plus’ category in my musical genome before I discovered Brad Paisley. The other artists I’m including in that group would still have shown up, but I would have lumped them under ‘singer-songwriters’ or shoehorned them into ‘folk.’ I never would have [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,516: ‘Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk’ – Rufus Wainwright

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  The next ‘Piano Man’ who occupies a strand of my musical genome is the loved-by-me, loathed-by-everybody-around-me Rufus Wainwright. Wainwright uses quite a bit of acoustic guitar, not to mention orchestral music and horns, in his music but at heart he is a tickler of the ivories. Look no further than [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,515: ‘Sing It Again’ – Beck

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  Today we arrive at another of those ‘Oddball’ misfits whose music I enjoy despite the fact that it sounds like nothing else in my collection. Beck defies categorization not just among my musical preferences but in general. Early in his career, he blended an alternative singer-songwriter style with hip-hop and [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,514: ‘Easy Way Out’ – Elliott Smith

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  A couple of weeks ago, I singled Aimee Mann out as the poster child for melancholy music. Well, she ain’t got nothing on Elliott Smith. At least Mann has a dry sense of humor (hell, she even had a cameo in The Big Lebowski). Smith, on the other hand, writes [...]
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