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Shorties (Beth Orton on Songwriting, A New Bruce Springsteen Biography, and more)

- Source: Largehearted Boy

"Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring. And I liked also the idea that sometimes you can smell that spring in the air even though it's the dead of winter; you just get that vague glimpse of it, and there's that sense of hope that it brings. I just thought, all in all, it just creates this wonderful imagery of writing songs: For me, it takes a lot of experience to make a little bit of sugar. These songs are my little bit of sugar, I think."

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Candid Shots Of Music Icons

- Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

John Lennon on October 24, 1974 on New York's West Side. "One of the truck drivers leaned over and asked me – 'Wasn't he one of those 'insects'?' - 'Insects!' laughed John, he thought that was just perfect! Their acceptance of John was total, a pleasure to witness ... I don't think John had ever been so relaxed or had so much fun on a photo shoot."

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Winnipeg Folk Festival underway; Billy Bragg on tour (dates)

- Source: Brooklyn Vegan

Born on 14th July 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma, Woody Guthrie was one of the most influential figures in popular music, inspiring Bob Dylan and a generation of topical singer-songwriters in the 1960s and even having an influence on punk--Joe Strummer modelled himself on Guthrie, asking friends to call him Woody as a teenager.

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5-10-15-20: Kurt Wagner

- Source: Pitchfork Media

Kurt Wagner , the 53-year-old frontman of the inscrutable, genre-bending alt-country outfit Lambchop , has logged countless hours on the road with various shifting band lineups, all while putting out 11 albums over the last 18 years and collaborating with artists as sonically disparate as experimental country crooner Cortney Tidwell and downtempo electronica act Morcheeba.

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