Music
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Country Is Cool?
In recent years, country music has surged in popularity with UK audiences, but what is it about the genre that has captured the nation’s hearts and ears? Is it the… Read more.
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Man, dig that cowboybeebop hurricane on stageblasting brazen squallsOne of God’s own prototypeshigh stepping, gonzo glory Read more.
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Soon as my lucchesestouch down on that well-worn stageFingers on flat topStanding on giant shouldersAt the Grand Ol Opry Read more.
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They called him lightningin a bottle, dust-gatheredBuried with bourbonHis life was a Jay Webb songrolling ’til the wheels came off Read more.
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The Semiotics of Country: How Bourbon Became the Genre’s Sacred Drink
Country music functions as a symbolic economy, a system of recurring motifs that convert lived experience into myth. I’m talking myth in the philosophical sense of how the French philosopher… Read more.
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Got a cigaretteFlaring outside this Bar NoneRye and neon breathedReckon without you with meAll I got’s Jordan Davies Read more.
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Sit on your barstoolYour pretty little poisonCocktail catching lightWith Warren Zeiders’ musicdrowning the best memory Read more.
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Like a whisky shotI’m chasing you with Wallenon my radiodown these bad down-home backroadsleading nowhere but the truth. Read more.
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Like The Duckman said:“I wish grandpas never died.”You live on through me Read more.
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Americana Haiku 007
I’ll spin you aroundJust like Morgan Wallen saidOn our wedding day Check out Americana Aspects other haikus: 001 002 003 004 005 006 Read more.
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