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  The Real Easy Ed

  

  Oct 3, 2021

  ‘Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’’: Loretta Lynn’s Feminist Anthem

  udiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton

  Continuing Loretta’s bold habit of saying the unsayable, ‘Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind)’ was a landmark song in country music. …

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  The Real Easy Ed

  

  22 hours ago

  The story behind the all-time classic The Zombies recorded as an afterthought

  loudersound.com - Will Simpson

  Ahh... 1964. It was bliss to be alive in that dawn; but to be a young British band was to be blessed with fortuity on an almost cosmic scale. The …

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  The Real Easy Ed

  

  1 day ago

  ‘Mama Tried’ Album: Merle Haggard’s Outlaw Country Classic

  udiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton

  The album was released in October 1968, when the man from Bakersfield was enjoying an extraordinary run of success. The news that Merle Haggard’s 1969 …

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  The Real Easy Ed

  

  20 hours ago

  Willie Nelson's Inspiring Message For Uvalde Shooting Victim's Family

  billboard.com - Gil Kaufman

  Willie Nelson had a hope-filled message for the parents of a victim of this May’s shooting massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde County, Texas …

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  The Real Easy Ed

  

  1 day ago

  Eliza Carthy: ‘Folk music is sexy and filthy and at the end of the night you fall over. That’s how I live’

  The Guardian - Dave Simpson

  At the start of this year, things did not look good for the Waterson-Carthy folk dynasty. It was, as Eliza Carthy put it, “struggling to survive”. Her mother, the celebrated singer Norma Waterson, had been unable to tour for a decade after falling into a coma that left her having to re-learn how to …

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  The Real Easy Ed

  

  1 day ago

  Aretha Franklin Was Tracked By the FBI for 40 Years. Here's What's In Her File

  Rolling Stone - Jenn Dize

  From 1967 to 2007, the Federal Bureau of Investigation methodically collected information about Aretha Franklin using false phone calls, …