Blog: Rockstar Aimz

The Weight

The Band, The Weight
I know I rip on Wilco a lot, but this is pretty damn good. Mavis Staples leads Nick Lowe and Wilco in their rendition of The Band's classic "The Weight" backstage at the Civic Opera House in Chicago in December 2011. Also watch the killer original from the best concert film of all time, 1973's The Last Waltz . A young Mavis Staples wails out the second verse. I love the comment on the youtube page that says, "Rick Danko [...]

Feel Bad For 2001

Feel Bad For 2001 This month for the Feel Bad For You comp we were asked to submit one of our favorite tracks from the last year. So as we give 2011 a swift kick in the ass good-bye, here are some of the best songs of 2011, as contributed by bloggers, tweeters, members of the altcountrytab.ca forum, and other rogues and rapscallions. Download 1. Powder Mill - Devil In New Orleans Southern Independent Vol. 2 Submitted By: Adam Sheets Comments: [...]
Link Text:Workin' Man Zombie.mp3
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Artist:Childish Gambino
Title:Freaks and Geeks
Link Text:Freaks and Geeks.mp3
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Year:2011
Artist:Daniel Knox
Title:I Make Enemies
Link Text:I Make Enemies.mp3
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Genre:American Popular Song
Year:2011
Artist:The Pollies
Title:Ashes of Burned Out Stars
Link Text:Ashes of Burned Out Stars.mp3
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Year:2011

More from 2011

Other albums from 2011 that I really liked (in alphabetical order by artist): Kasey Anderson and the Honkies - Heart of a Dog Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - Kings and Queens The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow Dawes - Nothing is Wrong The Decemberists - The King is Dead Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Glossary - Long Live All of Us Ha Ha Tonka - Death of [...]
Artist:Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
Title:My Town Has Moved Away (with Pam Tillis)
Link Text:My Town Has Moved Away (with Pam Tillis).mp3
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Genre:Country
Year:2011
Artist:Drive-By Truckers
Title:The Weakest Man
Link Text:The Weakest Man
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Bitrate:320 kbps
Genre:Alt Country
Year:2011
Artist:Lori McKenna
Title:Sweet Disposition
Link Text:Sweet Disposition.mp3
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Bitrate:160 kbps
Genre:Alt Country
Year:2011
Artist:Tom Russell
Title:Mesabi
Link Text:Mesabi.mp3
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Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Folk
Year:2011

My Favorite Albums of 2011

My Favorite Albums of 2011 I guess I lose what little blogger cred that I have if I don't post an end-of-the-year "Best Of" list before 2012. I'm getting it in just under the wire. These are my favorite albums on this day, the 31st of December, in the year of our lord 2011, and it is subject to change whenever I feel like it. Seriously, it's been a great year for music, and it was really difficult for me to make this list. Feel free to heap praise on me or call me a pretentious overbearing wretch. [...]
Artist:Austin Lucas
Title:Run Around
Link Text:Run Around.mp3
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Genre:Folk
Year:2011
Artist:Chuck Ragan
Title:Nothing Left To Prove
Link Text:Nothing Left to Prove.mp3
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Genre:Indie
Year:2011
Artist:Deer Tick
Title:Let's All Go To The Bar
Link Text:Let's All go to the Bar.mp3
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Genre:Indie
Year:2011
Artist:Frank Turner
Title:I Am Disappeared
Link Text:I Am Disappeared.mp3
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Genre:Rock
Year:2011
Artist:Gillian Welch
Title:Scarlet Town
Link Text:Scarlet Town.mp3
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Bitrate:233 kbps
Genre:Country
Year:2011
Artist:Hayes Carll
Title:Kmag Yoyo
Link Text:KMAG YOYO.mp3
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Bitrate:179 kbps
Genre:Alt Country
Year:2011
Artist:J Mascis
Title:Is It Done
Link Text:Is It Done.mp3
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Bitrate:240 kbps
Genre:Alternative
Year:2011
Artist:Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
Title:Go It Alone
Link Text:Go It Alone.mp3
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Bitrate:320 kbps
Genre:Rock
Year:2011
Artist:Robyn Ludwick
Title:Fight Song
Link Text:Fight Song.mp3
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Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Country
Year:2011
Artist:Todd Snider
Title:Don't It Make You Wanna Dance
Link Text:Don't it Make You Wanna Dance.mp3
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Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Alt Country
Year:2011
Artist:Todd Snider
Title:KK Rider Story
Link Text:KK Rider Story.mp3
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Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Alt Country
Year:2011

X-mas Mash-ups Yo!

X-mas Mash-ups Yo! I had a bunch of Christmas music posts planned, but here I am at my folk's place playing Ms. Computer Repairer, for both my parent's PC and my crappy netbook. Argh. It's not putting me in the holiday spirit, I tell you what. But anyhoo, who loves mash-ups? Me! Who really loves mash-ups with good (bad) Christmas tunes? MEEEEE!!! The first three are a few of my favorites from the fantastic Santastic collection, which is a group of DJ's that have been putting out a disc worth [...]
Artist:Divide & Kreate
Title:Santatage (Otis Redding vs The Beastie Boys vs RUN DMC)
Link Text:Santatage.mp3
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Genre:Other
Artist:mojochronic
Title:Rudolph (You Don't Have To Put On The Red Light)
Link Text:Rudolph (You Don't Have To Put On The Red Light).mp3
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Year:2010
Artist:mojochronic
Title:Yuletide Zeppelin
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Artist:MP3J
Title:Christmastime Firestarter
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Genre:Holiday; Mash-Up
Year:2007
Artist:Rocket Park
Title:Ruldolph The Red Neck Reindeer
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Genre:Holiday
Year:2001

Country Christmas Y'all

Country Christmas Y'all Christmas and country music go together like peas and carrots. It's that time of year where Santa corrals up his steeds, puts on his spurs, and delivers presents to all of the good little cowpokes who have never heard of, much less seen, snow. Don't mind that flask of shine that Santa has stashed in his leather vest. It's hard work delivering present all over the world! And if you are an extra good little rocker, Santa may bring you a new steel gee-tar for Christmas. Yeee-Haw! Brenda Lee - I'm Gonna Lasso [...]
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Artist:Asleep At The Wheel
Title:Merry Texas Christmas Y'all
Link Text:Merry Texas Christmas Y'all.mp3
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Genre:Holiday
Year:1997
Artist:Brenda Lee
Title:I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus
Link Text:I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus.mp3
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Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Holiday
Year:1988
Artist:Country Mike
Title:Country Christmas
Link Text:Country Christmas.mp3
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Bitrate:256 kbps
Genre:Holiday
Year:1998
Artist:Hayes Carll
Title:Grateful For Christmas
Link Text:Grateful for Christmas.mp3
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Bitrate:149 kbps
Genre:Alt Country; Holiday
Year:2011
Artist:Kelly Willis/Bruce Robison
Title:Oklahoma Christmas
Link Text:Oklahoma Christmas.mp3
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Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Holiday
Year:2006
Artist:Loretta Lynn
Title:Country Christmas
Link Text:Country Christmas.mp3
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Bitrate:207 kbps
Genre:Holiday; Country
Year:2005
Artist:Willie Nelson
Title:Pretty Paper
Link Text:Pretty Paper.mp3
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Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Holiday
Year:1987

Geriatric Rock

Twitter was abuzz today with a video of Jeff Tweedy, lead singer of Wilco , channeling his inner Al Roker by announcing the weather report for Chicago's WGN television on Thursday morning. First, who gets up that early to watch the morning weather report (especially if you are in the rock and roll business)? Second, who cares that much about the weather? The answer to both of these questions: my dad. 65-year-old father of two, grandfather of one, ice fisherman extraordinaire, not quite the Grumpy Old Men curmudgeon, but getting close. Another [...]
Artist:Wilco
Title:Born Alone
Link Text:Born Alone.mp3
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Bitrate:273 kbps
Genre:Alternative
Year:2011

December Feel Bad For You

December Feel Bad For You The monthly Feel Bad for You comp from various bloggers, tweeters, members of the altcountrytab.ca forum, and other jokers. And this one is spiked with X-mas tunes. Yay!!! Download /Stream: 1. The Duke Spirit - This Ship Was Built To Last Neptune (2008) Submitted By: Shooter Comments: Why don't you go over there and blow me and come back over here and fuck you. 2. Leonard Cohen - The Stranger Song Songs of Leonard Cohen [...]
Artist:Billy Joe Shaver
Title:Presents from the Past
Link Text:Presents From The Past.mp3
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Genre:Holiday; Country
Year:1998
Artist:Don Ryan
Title:This Town
Link Text:This Town.mp3
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Year:2011
Artist:Sidewinders
Title:Solitary Man
Link Text:Solitary Man.mp3
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Bitrate:256 kbps
Genre:Rock
Year:1989
Artist:The High Score
Title:Merry Christmas to You
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Holiday Cheer

This blog has seen better days. I'm trying to get back into the swing of things, but I could use a little help. Maybe some Holiday Cheer from Old St. Nick? In other words, BOOZE! Better Off Dead - All I Got For Christmas Was Drunk.mp3 Buy (CD Baby): A King Family Christmas (2006) Darby O'Gill and the Little People - Christmas Whiskey.mp3 Buy : Christmas Songs [...]
Artist:Better Off Dead
Title:All I Got For Christmas Was Drunk
Link Text:All I Got For Christmas Was Drunk.mp3
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Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Holiday
Year:2006
Artist:Clyde Lasley & the Cadillac Baby Specials
Title:Santa Came Home Drunk
Link Text:Santa Came Home Drunk.mp3
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Genre:Holiday
Year:1989
Artist:Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Title:Whiskey Christmas
Link Text:Christmas Whiskey.mp3
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Genre:Holiday
Year:2007
Artist:Robert Earl Keen
Title:Merry Christmas from the Family
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Genre:Holiday
Year:2006

Remembering Freddie Mercury

Queen - somebody to love
A few weeks ago at his gig in Cambridge, MA, Frank Turner lead everyone in a singalong to Queen's "Somebody to Love." (More on that later) Since then I have been on a huge Queen kick. Today is American Thanksgiving, but it is also the 20th anniversary of the death of Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury. Mercury was the greatest rock singer of all time, with a vocal range of four octaves, which is pretty amazing considering he had to formal vocal training. You can read the rest of his [...]

Gigs you should see in Boston Oct 27-28

It seems like I'm always out of town when there are bands/artists touring through Boston who I really want to see. While I am away visiting family in Detroit Rock City, here are some gigs to check out. Thursday, October 27 Gillian Welch at the Wilbur Theater Update (from http://www.gillianwelch.com ): Due to Laryngitis, Gillian Welch is unable to perform tonight (October 27, 2011). The show has been postponed to Tuesday, December 13th at 8 PM. All original tickets will be honored night of show. If for [...]
Artist:Blitzen Trapper
Title:Might Find It Cheap
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Genre:Indie
Year:2011
Artist:Dawes
Title:Coming Back to a Man
Link Text:Coming Back to a Man.mp3
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Genre:Indie
Year:2011
Artist:Gillian Welch
Title:The Way It Goes
Link Text:The Way it Goes.mp3
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Genre:Country
Year:2011
Artist:The Civil Wars
Title:Barton Hollow
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Bitrate:320 kbps
Genre:Singer/Songwriter
Year:2011

Our Lady Peace and the Occupy movement

Our Lady Peace - Fight The Good Fight
A day before the Canadian music blog NXEW tweeted "The U.S. sites are full of live performances from well known acts, why aren't Canada's musicians turning up at #OccupyCanada?" this below message came through my inbox via Bob Lefsetz and his music musings newsletter. Our Lady Peace is one of my favorite Canadian rock bands, even from before I lived in Toronto. While they may not be performing in the Occupy movement, they are definitely getting involved. Check out their latest song/video entitled "Fight The Good Fight" and see lead singer [...]

October Feel Bad For You: Instrumentals

October Feel Bad For You: Instrumentals Your monthly comp from your favorite musical delinquents, only this time, with a theme! Most people submitted instrumentals, but some people can't follow directions (I'll leave you to figure that one out). It's a pretty interesting comp this month - everything from country to hip-hop to metal to stoner rock. And I forgot the link to the stream, so if you want to stream the entire comp, go here . Otherwise, download here . 1. Chelsea Crowell - For Stormy.mp3 Buy (mp3): [...]
Title:Squid Omelet
Link Text:Squid Omelet.mp3
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Genre:Alternative
Year:2007
Artist:Booker T. & the M.G.s
Title:Green Onions
Link Text:Green Onions.mp3
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Bitrate:163 kbps
Genre:Rock
Year:1962
Artist:Chelsea Crowell
Title:For Stormy
Link Text:For Stormy.mp3
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Bitrate:160 kbps
Genre:Country & Folk
Year:2011
Artist:Megadeth
Title:Into The Lungs Of Hell
Link Text:Into the Lungs of Hell.mp3
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Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Metal
Year:1988
Artist:Sun Kil Moon
Title:Si, Paloma
Link Text:Si Paloma.mp3
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Bitrate:206 kbps
Genre:Indie
Year:2003

Your Past Life As A Blast

Your Past Life As A Blast
A few weeks ago Okkervil River released a video for their song "Your Past Life as a Blast" from the 2011 album I Am Very Far. This song is one of my favorites on an otherwise mediocre record, and the video is cute as hell. Here's what Okkervill River lead singer/ songwriter Will Sheff has to say about it. When I was writing the lyrics for I Am Very Far I kept fixating on the idea of being new, specifically memories of being very little [...]
Artist:Okkervil River
Title:Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe
Link Text:Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe.mp3
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Bitrate:256 kbps
Genre:Indie
Year:2007
Artist:Okkervil River
Title:Your Past Life as a Blast
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Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Indie
Year:2011

Amanda Palmer covers Rebecca Black

Amanda Palmer at Occupy Boston - Rebecca Black 'Friday' cover
But it's not exactly what you would expect. Yesterday Amanda Palmer entertained the folks protesting corporate and government shenanigans at Occupy Boston. In addition to playing one of her own songs, covering Neutral Milk Hotel , and performing the old English folk song " The World Turned Upside Down " popularized by Billy Bragg , she also rewrote the pop song "Friday" from the perspective of a truck stop hooker. Now, the premise of this cover sounds hysterical, but listen to the lyrics, especially in context of what the people at the Occupy [...]

American Dream

American Dream "Its called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin Listen carefully to these lyrics: Willie Nelson featuring Bob Dylan - Heartland.mp3 Buy : Across the Borderline (1993) The Dead Exs - Shut Up and Love Me.mp3 Buy (mp3, name your price): Resurrection (2011) http://myaimzistrue.blogspot.c om/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Artist:The Dead Exs
Title:Shut Up And Love Me
Link Text:Shut Up and Love Me.mp3
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Bitrate:200 kbps
Genre:Blues
Year:2011
Artist:Willie Nelson
Title:Heartland (feat. Bob Dylan)
Link Text:Heartland.mp3
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Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Country
Year:1995

September Feel Bad For You

September Feel Bad For You Only a month or so late! From your favorite bloggers, twitterers, forum members at AltCountryTab.ca , and other slack-jawed yokels, September's mix tape! Check out the homepage at Feel Bad for You . Stream or download the comp below. Download 1. Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy Secret Treaties (1974) Submitted by: Shooter Jennings Comments: Part of one of the most expansive and confusing concept albums ever written which involves Aliens, Dark Mirrors and Lesbians [...]
Artist:Dolorean
Title:Benito's Dust
Link Text:Benito’s Dust.mp3
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Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2004
Artist:Glen Campbell
Title:Ghost On the Canvas
Link Text:Ghost on the Canvas.mp3
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Bitrate:256 kbps
Genre:Country
Year:2011
Artist:Johnny 'Guitar' Watson
Title:Space Guitar
Link Text:Space Guitar.mp3
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Bitrate:180 kbps
Genre:Rock
Year:2007
Artist:The Afghan Whigs
Title:Gentlemen
Link Text:Gentleman.mp3
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Bitrate:256 kbps
Genre:Alternative
Year:1993
Artist:The Hangdogs
Title:Other People's Houses
Link Text:The World Is Yours.mp3
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Bitrate:168 kbps
Genre:Alt Country
Year:2000
Artist:Trombone Shorty
Title:Hurricane Season
Link Text:Hurricane Season.mp3
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Bitrate:223 kbps
Genre:Jazz
Year:2010

This Blog Needs an Enema

For various reasons, some of it being laziness, I have totally neglected this blog over the last few months. After a little vacation, I am read to jump back in full force. My question for you, dear readers, is this: should I post reviews of the shows that I have attended over the last few months? Blogging by its nature is very time-sensitive, especially music blogs. Do I say "fuck it," and post in October about shows that I saw in March? Would anyone read that crap? Does anyone read my current crap? I [...]

Book of Poems

Book of Poems Even though I'm feeling somewhat over-saturated by the media with Sept 11 memorials, especially for an event that seems to me to have just happened last week, I have to add a bit for those of you who happen to read my little blog. One of my favorite singers/songwriters/performers , Rhett Miller , who's band the Old 97's helped introduce me to the alt country genre, lived in New York just three blocks south of the World Trade Center on the day the twin towers were attacked. He allowed The Atlantic [...]
Artist:Old 97's
Title:Book of Poems
Link Text:Book of Poems.mp3
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Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Alt Country
Year:2001

Hurricane Party

Hurricane Party Photo from NASA Flickr set Who needs some hurricane music? Despite the fact that the national media is treating this like the end of civilization, we east coasters are really quite alright. Boston will get a bunch of rain and wind, but I live on the 7th floor up on a hill, so I will be fine. I just hope that the power doesn't go out cause that would suck. But I'm all stocked up with cookies, donuts, and beer just in case I'm shut in! [...]
Artist:6 String Drag
Title:She's a Hurricane
Link Text:She's a Hurricane.mp3
File Name:8j7dsgyngsh6hn612ec4.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Alt Country
Year:1995
Artist:Ben Prestage
Title:Hurricane Blues
Link Text:Hurricane Blues.mp3
File Name:i69zx66cvmslgxsyou1f.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Folk
Year:2006
Artist:The Shiners
Title:Hurricane Blues
Link Text:Hurricane Blues.mp3
File Name:2fmlyuxjvc5v96lderul.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Country
Year:2002
Artist:The Weavers
Title:Goodnight Irene
Link Text:Goodnight Irene.mp3
File Name:ij27d96qx71knrxgdv73.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Folk
Year:2000
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