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    "Deacon Blues" and "Peg": Best back-to-back songs on an album, ever?

    More nerding out on Deacon Blues:
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    "Deacon Blues" and "Peg": Best back-to-back songs on an album, ever?

    Bonus: De La Soul's tight sample of "Peg" on "Eye Know," from the classic 3 Feet High and Rising (the whistling is sampled from Otis Redding "Sitting on the Dock of Bay"
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    "Deacon Blues" and "Peg": Best back-to-back songs on an album, ever?

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    Beer in Chicago

    This listicle has some good stuff: http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/foodfocus/ct-best-beers-chicago-2017-photo-gallery-20170627-photogallery.html A month's worth of Chicago beer experiences.
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    Beer in Chicago

    I'm not familiar with 3F's rotation of stouts. Ironically, other than Dark Lord, they're not really known for stouts. Besides Zombie Dust, their pales Gumballhead (wheat) and Alpha King are excellent. My favorite, available Chicago stouts are Begyle Flannel Pajamas and Haymarket's Defender...
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    Beer in Chicago

    Zombie Dust lives up to the hype for the style. In terms of top-to-bottom lineup, my favorite breweries are Begyle, Solemn Oath, and Pipewerks probably in that order. Most of their bottles are available at Whole Foods or good liquor stores. If you have time, you should do a post-marathon...
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    Dunkirk [July 21, 2017]

    Dunkirk thread on Reddit Ask Historians: The guys and gals who run Ask Historians are amazing. Some are PhDs, some are 'self-trained' or 'amateur' historians. All expert answers are sourced to published work and the mod team is a machine.
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    Beers you're enjoying this holiday

    New Glarus Oud Bruin Flemish brown 2016. Quenching, quaffable!
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    RIP Chris Cornell

    Suicide by hanging.
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    Mods help I broke page three of the modern country thread

    For me, it crashes on iPad but not laptop.
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    Modern Country Music

    I ask myself that all the time, especially when I listen to the radio.
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    Modern Country Music

    That started in the early-50s, if not before with Jimmie Rodgers.
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    Modern Country Music

    This is from yesterday's Americana Awards nomination show. Archived livestream here. Isbell at about 18 minutes in. Cooley and Hood a few minutes later. Master of the dobro Jerry Douglas at 49 minutes, with a full band (plus brass!).
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    Modern Country Music

    Props to the Country Music Hall of Fame for pulling off this acoustic meeting of Isbell, Hood, and Cooley.
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    Things not to do in an interview

    Last week, had a candidate for a grad assistantship ask at the end of the interview if we would be interested in 'giving some feedback or critiques of her interviewing style,' since the interview was over and we were all sitting together in the same room. Is this a thing? My colleague and I just...
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