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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Limitation of Rock and Roll Vocabulary

Rick Steves: Rock and roll has always been mysterious lyrically. Maybe that's what the reinvention of rock and roll sounds like It's modern references, he says. He thinks Hank Williams or Loretta Lynn would have been Caught dead not Singing out a Cadillac if they'd done it today. steves: Country artists are afraid to live in that world because they only have one radio format. If they don't stick to this formula, they will not get airplay.

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