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Specific to Universal

2025 round-up: state of the blog

New music for your weekend

One Song: The Last Chance

Sunshine Blogger Awards

The Country Stylings of Norah Jones

Three Versions: "Early Morning Rain"

Album Highlights: Separate Ways

Songwriting selections (raised by folkies)

Raised by folkies

Three Versions: Song Of The Artesian Water

Songs about timeless songs

Music Of My Childhood

Three Versions: Because The Night

Can AI analyze a song

Digging for Something with Nick from Earnestness Is Underrated

One Song: Memories (live)

Book Recommendation: We Are Eating The Earth

Songs that belong to everyone

The Abundance Debate We’re Not Having

Tune Tag #99 with NickS (WA), Pt. 4: Mott the Hoople, Carla Thomas, Barenaked Ladies, Shaun Cassidy, Brian Wilson, Janis Ian, Willie Nelson, Otis Redding, Andrew Gold

Thanks and Recomendations

Abundance and male lions

4 versions: Gallows Pole

Grab Bag -- The Voice

Will The Wolf Survive

Grace Jones & The Compass Point All-Stars

Woman Blue

Reaching Out

British Folk Luminaries

Building functional systems takes work.

"I've gone crazy on this road"

Three songs: Randy Newman

Addendum: How a song is written and refined

Thao

R.I.P. Marianne Faithfull

Three versions: "The January Man"

Songs and meaning

An experiment

Album Highlights: Tori Amos at Montreux

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