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Everybody Hates Mike
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Our I-Team uncovered the private love letters of Cleveland's biggest names. You'll be shocked by what we discovered.
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Beat Down (3)
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Underneath its glossy exterior, the Cleveland Orchestra has a dark side. His name is William Preucil.
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Crazy Talk
Miranda Lambert is a lot like any other girl with a soft spot for guns and setting exes on fire.
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The Bravery's New World
New-wave revivalists discover the power of three-chord guitar rock.
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Beer, BBQ, industry schmoozing: Rounding up SXSW 2008’s local delegates
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Keep on Truckin'
Jason Isbell finds life after the Drive-By Truckers.
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It took them 10 years, but the Sadies finally craft a country-rock classic
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Akron mom embezzles $12,000 from PTA
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Recent Articles By Nate Cavalieri
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White Stripes
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Neko Case
With Jon Rauhouse. Sunday, April 1, at the Beachland. This event is sold out.
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Arcade Fire
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The Race Is On
Dylan won the 2006 Pazz & Jop poll, but TV on the Radio is the real protestor.
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The Birth of Popera
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Subject(s): Guy Clark
As an affable elder statesman of Texas' country-folk tradition, Guy Clark's effortless ballads make him a well-matched riding partner with such quintessential Lone Star songwriters as Townes Van Zandt and Kris Kristofferson. The strength of the been-thar-done-that observations on Workbench Songs lies in the fact that they're never softly nostalgic. While "Out in the Parkin' Lot," we sit beside Clark on the fender of his buddy's truck, enjoying warm cocktails of Old Crow and 7-Up, with Clark's detailed vantage snapping those scuffling cowboys in the warm neon glow into sharp focus.
And though there are times when Clark's pearls of wisdom get a bit hokey -- as on "Analog Girl" or, gulp, the Parrothead-friendly "Cinco de Mayo in Memphis" -- Workbench Songs is more earnest than curmudgeonly. On "Magdalene," the record's loveliest, Clark contemplates a life south of the border, singing, "I've heard Mexico was easy." But by the sound of these firmly rooted songs, the old bugger isn't leaving Texas anytime soon.
