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The Atkins song brought me tears, for yhe times I never had with my own Dad. Thanks, Barry.

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Piece tears me up and my father is still here

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-n3Wx5jvA (and yeah, jeezis, too much country; "I think your brain's gone soft from all that comedy you been playing with that young girl."

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Thank you, friend.

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Bobbie Gentry. Disappeared into the mists. No one has seen her for 40 years. You've been living in Tulsa too long, too many country songs in there.

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Why do you hate America, Kent?

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Beat me to it, Barry ! Real Country, like the Banjo, may well be the only important cultural contribution to Society, writ large, this Country has ever made.

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That would take years and money neither one of us has to untangle, Barry.

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Good try, Barry. You squeezed in opera, but no jazz, no blues. WTF.

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“Jeeps Blues” makes the Top 20

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All right, then. Ellington and that sax, it'll do.

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June,no doubt Satchmo and "What a Wonderful World" should have been there.

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Gets me every time.....

https://youtu.be/ze9kMoMfxYA

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That's beautiful, Paul.

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