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Simply a WOW from beginning to end. I love your list, John. You are the best of the best here on Substack and in the world. Love to you and yours, Mary

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Thanks! Back atcha, Mary.

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Thanks for introducing me to Joanna Wang’s music. Hotel La Rut is like if Regina Spektor wrote an album length Abbey Road medley that spanned increasingly many genres.

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That is a *perfect* description of that album. I wish I had thought of it!

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John, I love your writing about writing. However, I keep coming back for your writing about music. Each time you educate me and open my eyes to new art I have not discovered before. Thanks for sharing your love for the arts with us. Hope you had a great summer. All the best my friend, Matthew

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Thank you, brother. That means a lot—truly.

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Oh wow, thanks for this! I look forward to listening.

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The first and only time William Fitzwilliam has been memorialised in song? We are here for it.

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