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Urban Folk

the zine on the acoustic sceneIssue 11Spring 2007

A Hard Look atSoft BlackThe WolfsonCampaignWakey!Wakey!Billy SyndromePublic RecordsMore!Plus: Lowry,Chris Maher,Brook Pridemore

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Paul Alexander writes:Last issue I made a mistake. Certainly not the first I've ever made, and without a doubt, far from the last. The mistakein question has to do with misquoting the very apt and quotable Leo, who sent me the witty lyric "Now I met Zachback in 1899 / We were diggin' for diamonds in the songwriter's mine," which I egregiously corrected, thinking it waschronologically mistyped. I altered it to read "Now I met Zach back in 1998 / We were diggin' for diamonds in thesongwriter's mine." It didn't occur to me that my revision clearly avoided the rhyme scheme. Some songwriter, huh?o once again paraphrase Leo's words: "Retractions, retractions, ga-ga-ga-ga-gotta write the retractions…"So, now that I've retracted my most recent faux-pas, I hope Leo, along with the rest of our

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readers, willorgive and forget any other missteps I've made along the way. Thanks for reading.ww.myspace.com/palexandermusiconathan Berger writes:I hope you enjoy this issue. If you don’t: it’s not my fault; it’s yours. You could contribute. In fact, you should. Thispublication runs on dreams, and if you don’t supply the fuel, it ain’t going nowhere. Help us go somewhere. Writesomething. Advertise something. Show people that we’re something.

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Issue Eleven. Available May, 2007 (now)