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The great Nigerian drummer Olatunji says there's a rhythm for everything. I, Tex, say there's a country song for everything. Including the shanty boat. Here is one I bet you haven't heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIiJ...

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An unusually well-written Canadian retort to Hank Williams. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN44...

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Still one of the more African moments in American music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Gz...

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Carole King is certainly not unknown, but she's a bit underrated as a songwriter, I think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ks...

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There ain't no rock and roll like the Deutsche Rock und Roll. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo10...

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Strong socially active country from the 1990s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KFp...

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A good song about Elm Street in Dallas that is not "Deep Ellum Blues." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dY_...

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GOAT: Greatest Of All Time. There have been many great American football players. But many feel that Tom Brady is the GOAT.

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An oldie but a goodie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0LA...

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Great example of the older Hank Thompson's ear for a clever song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xl...

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Anyone remember Mandrill? The xylophone is terrific. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqqR...

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A good long thread about what Damascus is like right now. x.com/PeterHarling...

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The lights around the skating rink, laughing in the face of the darkness at the lonely heart of winter. This is about as Canadian as you can get. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0eZ...

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THE JIG IS UP: The deception has been revealed.

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Comic songs are some of the most difficult to write, and the early 1990s produced a good number of them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDV...

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Elegant little tune. Most of this guy's songs are dark in the extreme (not just "Psycho"), but here's a fun one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=chBH...

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"Bet on love and let it ride" is a good line. Quite often that's really what it comes down to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=plEr...

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This really cooks. Is that the actual Cherokee language heard in the chorus? The writer of the song, Chief William Redbird, was apparently Cherokee. @craigmaki.bsky.social Do you know? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jJC...

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We turned our little girl into a prisoner of war. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ona...

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Just gorgeous.

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An elegant lyric from the man who said songwriting was like trying to do the New York Times crossword puzzle while you're in therapy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMUT...

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Forgotten piece of swamp country from 1970. There was a bluegrass group called the Gritz Band, but this group is unconnected to it. Duke Bardwell, a co-writer, later played in Elvis's band.

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Congrats to Beyoncé for album of the year! Here's one of the people who inspired her (and whom she has credited). "Down to the last square on the checkerboard" is a good line, and "hooked on a barbed-wire love" is even better. Written by Margaret Lewis and Myra Smith. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2uW...

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I didn’t get a goddamn history degree so I could relive it

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Terrific piece of country soul. Written by Wayne Carson, who also wrote "The Letter." www.youtube.com/watch?v=XghC...

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This cat is lying. It claimed that it had not been fed for weeks. But the coffee house staff said it belonged to the neighbor.

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Play that funky music! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTsw...

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Devastating and devastated hard honky-tonk. Czechs drink a lot. Australians do. Do they have songs like this? Notable in that it's on Vee Jay, better known for R&B and for being the Beatles' first American label. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNGc...

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Don't speak in English.

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Happy Year of the Snake!

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Nine hundred views. Outrageous—this is a love song for the ages. Yes, part of it is in Spanish, but that's true of many pop songs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc4z...

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Jakarta traffic. I find it interesting that if you have a friendly interaction with a cashier here, they will say, "Hati-hati di jalan," Be careful on the street, to send you on your way.

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As the crow flies, you can be my baby. From the underrated Uncle Walt's Band, early purveyors of progressive country in Austin. Their lyrics were often top-notch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvn...

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It's even freezing in Jakarta!

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Get a degree in heavy metal from a Dutch university! Courses in English, and even for foreigners Dutch universities aren't very expensive. community.designtaxi.com/topic/7887-d...

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An almost unknown song—check the view count. But it arguably goes further than anything else ever composed in mixing two languages in a song. The male vocal is by Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6J...

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Betty Acquah, contemporary painter from Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana, West Africa #womensart

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It doesn't hit a home run every time, but it does so often enough. deadlinedetroit.com/articles/327...

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A cat at the National Museum of Indonesia. It had just killed a mouse or a vole, and was washing off its paw. #catswithjobs

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Related to but not the same song as Elvis Presley's "Run On." www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE3b...

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I love you around the world. Anyone know if the Bengali is accurate? For the languages I know, he's really not bad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Fn...

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The young Barbara Mandrell. I wouldn't take it over the original, but it's close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Wn...

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Ibuprofen + acetaminophen beats opiods for dental pain. studyfinds.org/dental-pain-...

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Interesting ... I'm in Indonesia, but I have a VPN set to the U.S. I'm still getting TikTok. Wonder why.

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There are fancy Chinese restaurants here, like everywhere else. But there are also these simple places, always with this odd wording "Seafood dan chinesefood" ("dan" is "and"). I wonder what the history of these is. They must have been part of the Chinese diaspora here, but why specifically seafood?

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The blue ice is back at the Straits. Photo by burgerplex on Instagram, looking very much like a Winslow Homer.

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