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My Music Memoir

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         I don’t like Taylor Swift. I don’t know how to be plainer than that. You see it’s not something that happened all at once, not at all. I used to really enjoy her as a person and her music. Her personality was endearing. At the beginning she seemed genuine and as we have discussed multiple times in my Music and Rhetoric class, authentic. I could also relate to a lot of her songs on some level. I will give a little insight. If I like someone’s character, everything about that person is that much better, and that’s how I felt about Miss Taylor. 2006 Tim McGraw Just a boy in a Chevy truck That had a tendency of gettin’ stuck On back roads at night And I was right there beside him all summer long And then the time we woke up to find that summer had gone…                      It was 2006 and a lot was happening in my life. I had my fourth child, my husband was finally finishing school (it felt like we had been a cons
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Chris Stapleton Album Review

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John Stone Magazine Review: Chris Stapleton Does It Again, But Better By Shauna Porter                                                             November 5, 2017             Chris Stapleton rose to stardom in 2015 with the release of the George Jones cover, “Tennessee Whiskey,” off of the album, Traveller. The album was a success and was nominated for and won multiple awards including the Grammy for Best Country Album.   As with most successful freshman albums go, this one did not disappoint, but there is a pressure that comes with the success… being able to deliver an equally or more successful sophomore album, and he does just that.                          The new ealbum, From A Room: Volume 1 has an eclectic sound, from “Up to No Good Livin’,” which has the traditional country sound. The kind you hear in a honky-tonk, smoke in the air, men leading the women around the dance floor with just one hand on the back of their necks, to “I Wa
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