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Teresereading
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics | Dolly Parton, Robert K Oermann
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 🥰 2d
Eggs I enjoyed this 2d
Teresereading I listened to the audiobook which was fascinating. 2d
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keepingupwiththepenguins
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Pickpick

The Beatles and Philosophy falls at the more academic end of the spectrum, despite its pop culture focus. It‘s written for someone who‘s already across the basics of philosophical thought, and an intimate knowledge of the Beatles catalogue is pretty much essential. Luckily, I came equipped with both. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-beatles-and-philosophy-michael-baur-ste...

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Robotswithpersonality
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics | Dolly Parton, Robert K Oermann
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Mehso-so

A pleasant meander. Sort of an extended interview/conversation, using individual songs to talk either specifically about the story behind the song or some aspect of Dolly's life.
I'll admit to wishing the production had been a bit different: the beginnings of songs start the various conversations, and maybe it's a rights or length concern, but after a while you just find yourself wishing you could hear the whole song 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? instead of a fade out clip. Acknowledged, I could just pause and go listen to the song, but that does tend to break up the listening experience....
The other somewhat jarring feature were the interstitials not in Dolly's voice - introducing changes in subject matter that are not fronted by a different song. I can understand the organizing principle behind sectioning off and clearly labelling such shifts in topics but the voice doing so
4mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/3 is almost robotic, not melodic, and is an unpleasant contrast to Parton's drawl and occasional drift into song.
And on the really, really subjective end of critiques, evidently this awesome person is a lot more religious/spiritual than I knew and God/gospel talk is just distancing to this atheist reader.
4mo
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Creadnorthey
How to Write One Song | Jeff Tweedy
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Pickpick

Like a Wilco song this just washed over me in the best of ways. I‘m not at the point of writing a song, but could relate his feelings and ideas to my other creative practices! And he is so right when he says every one of us should experience creating something.

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Ellie_H
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I know this is a weird question, but does anybody have any song recantations for the spooky season??#halloween
My recommendation is the Beetlejuice the Musical soundtrack!!

Jadams89 My favorite musical 💚 12mo
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Graciouswarriorlibrarian
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics | Dolly Parton, Robert K Oermann
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Books 130-136 of the year.

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kelli7990
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Mehso-so

Here‘s my review for this book that I won from a Goodreads giveaway in 2021. I chose this for my mood read prompt for #bookspinbingo. Either way, it‘s off of my physical TBR now.

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kelli7990
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kelli7990
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I listened to the second chapter of this book at the dog park today with my dog. I‘m slowly making progress in this book. The chapters are kind of long so I feel like I can‘t listen to more than 1 chapter at a time. I think that this would be a good book for people who are fans of hers. It‘s an interesting book but it‘s not about songwriting. It‘s more of a memoir. I‘m not a fan of hers so I don‘t feel invested in the story yet.

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kelli7990
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I‘m reading the tagged book right now and it has her music in it. I found out that each chapter is named after one of her songs and she sings the song at the end of each chapter. I only listened to the first chapter. I don‘t know if I‘m going to like her music or not. I like discovering new music. Am I going to finish this book? I don‘t know yet but after only hearing 1 chapter, I thought it was interesting.

#tuesdaytunes

TieDyeDude That is a cool concept. Thanks for sharing! 1y
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