Spins: Dennis Wilson, Joe Satriani

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Dennis Wilson
Pacific Ocean Blue (Legacy Edition)
Label: Caribou/Epic
If you like: Brian Wilson, Jimmy Webb, Van Dyke Parks
Song to download: “River Song” (disc one), “It’s Not Too Late” (disc two)
4 stars (out of four)

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What’s in Aiken’s CD player?

Let’s play a little game of word association to find out who is featured in this week’s In My CD Player column.

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Merlefest’s Ruthie Foster is phenomenal

Nobody really blinked an eye when Ray Charles, being Brother Ray and all, released an album bearing a title that declared him a “genius.” Nor was there discord when Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, was described on one of her album’s titles as “electrifying.”

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Fiddlin’ for the 84th year in Union Grove

In 1924, H. P. Van Hoy, a school teacher and a fiddler, thought of a good way to raise money for Union Grove School; he would hold a fiddler’s convention. 

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