When I was younger, I never understood why musicians were sometimes described as singer-songwriters. Didn’t everyone do both? Why would someone not write their own music? Over time it became clear that some musicians weren’t lyricists, making the label “singer-songwriter” much more revealing (and honorable) than I ever understood. Turns out even the biggest singer-songwriters […]
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Johnny Cash Reveals Shel Silverstein Wrote “A Boy Named Sue”
December 27th, 2013 
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Watch Frank Turner Cover Joni Mitchell’s “River”
November 7th, 2013 Kendra Beltran Frank Turner’s an adventurous man when it comes to covers, claiming to learn a new one for every city he and his band travel through on tour – or at least he tries. This time around he sat down for a Folk-O-Rama session in Columbia, MO to take on Joni Mitchell’s “River.” The folk/punk singer […]
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