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Love listening to music while reading a book. Fan of classic movies, political punditry, television, and all who fight injustice.
Nanci Griffith aficionado.
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Today's Tune: Kasey Musgraves featuring Troye Sivan GLITTERY

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Tracey Musgraves and Troye Sivan are taking a selfie.
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Today's Tune: Sara Bareilles LOVE IS CHRISTMAS

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Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles singing at a grand piano.
December 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Today's Tune: Nancy Wilson THAT'S WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS

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The best Christmas song you may have never heard. I love her voice.

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Singer Nancy Wilson on the cover of her Christmas album, A NANCY WILSON CHRISTMAS
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Today's Tune: Mary-Chapin Carpenter
BELLS ARE RINGING

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#Christmas
Singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter sitting, holding her guitar.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Today's Tune: Nanci Griffith ON GRAFTON STREET

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#Christmas
Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith is playing her sunburst Taylor guitar while singing into a microphone.
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Today's Tune: The Civil Wars TRACKS IN THE SNOW

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Footprints in snow.
December 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Today's Tune: Nancy LaMott ALL THOSE CHRISTMAS CLICHÉS

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Cabaret singer Nancy LaMott.
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Today's Tune: Alison Krauss & Yo-Yo Ma THE WEXFORD CAROL

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Alison Krauss & Yo-Yo Ma
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
The front cover of Joni Mitchell's album THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Today's Tune: Cheryl Wheeler BUT THE DAYS AND NIGHTS ARE LONG

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Patience and grace, blessed is love
I'm loosin my faith
In most of that stuff those wise men said

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#Songwriting
Singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler is holding a guitar and smiling.
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Today's Tune: Shawn Colvin KILLING THE BLUES

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Singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin playing a guitar and singing in front of a microphone.
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Today's Tune: Sam Cooke A CHANGE IS GONNA COME

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#ElectionNight
Sam Cooke singing into a Shure 55 Unidyne microphone.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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The cover of Nanci Griffith's album ONE FAIR SUMMER EVENING
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The cover of Nanci Griffith's album ONE FAIR SUMMER EVENING
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Today's Tune: Brandi Carlile RETURNING TO MYSELF

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Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile playing a Gibson guitar and smiling in front of a her custom gold Sennheiser SKM 6000 microphone.
October 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Today's Tune: Chris Stapleton YOU SHOULD PROBABLY LEAVE

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Chris Stapleton
October 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Today's Tune: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong AUTUMN IN NEW YORK

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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Today's Tune: Sheryl Crow A CHANGE WOULD DO YOU GOOD

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Singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow
October 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Today's Tune: Diane Keaton THERE'S A LULL IN MY LIFE

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From The Tonight Show, 1972.
The extraordinary actor, Diane Keaton.
October 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Today's Tune: Elton John GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
From the album released 52 years ago on this date.

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Elton John album front cover—Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
October 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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I think I'll drop this right here. (I'd give credit, but a friend shared via text and doesn't know the origin) #TCMParty
The family Von Trapp aka Antifa.
October 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Today's Tunes: Cass Elliot & Julie Andrews MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC

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Happy 90th birthday, Dame Andrews!

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Cass Elliot and Julie Andrews, sing a duet.
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Today's Tune: Sarah McLaughlan BETTER BROKEN

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Singer-songwriter, Sarah McLaughlan. Founder of the Lilith Fair Festival and the Sarah McLaughlin School of Music,
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Today's Tune: Jim Croce THE HARD WAY EVERY TIME (live performance)

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Singer-songwriter Jim Croce.
September 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Happy birthday, Sophia Loren—born on this day in Rome, 1934.
Sophia Loren at home, 1964. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life Magazine.
September 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM