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The Willie Nelson ‘Always on My Mind’ Hit Chris Stapleton Called an “Instruction Manual on How to Write Country Songs”
"It's a great song and I just loved it. It's just always been one of my favorite songs," said Stapleton of the 1982 Willie ...
'The Last of Us': The song at the end of episode 2 has deeper meaning
The only way to hear "Through the Valley" in The Last of Us: Part II was to beat the game on Permadeath mode. That's a ...
Brothers Find a Message in a Bottle — Then Track Down the Man Who Wrote It in 1976 When He Was a Teen: ’Big Surprise’
A teen’s message in a bottle, written 49 years ago in Massachusetts, was found more than 1,000 miles away in the Bahamas. Brothers Clint and Evan Buffington discovered the 1976 message tucked inside a ...
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The Paul McCartney Lyric That Quietly Closed Out His Most Manic Album
Paul McCartney went experimental on the songs of McCartney II, but he returned to his strengths on the album closer "One Of These Days".
The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dread
Dylan is the Picasso of popular music. His 'Ballad of a Thin Man' speaks more powerfully to what it feels like to be alive in 2025 than anything I can think of.