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Nearly sixty years after Neil Youngreleased Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, a debate remains amongst fans and music aficionados: who was the "Cinnamon Girl" that captured Young's heart? Written in a ...

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Great lyrics are great lyrics, it doesn’t matter what genre of music you put them in. As long as they are true, poetically sound, and rhythmically catchy, great lyrics are going to shine no matter ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Need some country songs from the 60s to transport you back to the early days of the genre? These four gems will do it.

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31 essential classic rock albums, from Zeppelin to Bowie, that shaped an era with riffs, melodies, and timeless, ...