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		<title>ACM Nominations &#8211; the watering down of country music continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another country music award show where all the great music from the eligibility period is ignored in favor of pandering to mainstream tastes. Now, I wasn&#8217;t expecting the likes of The Dreaming Fields or even Lady &#38; Gentleman to score any nominations but the academy made two glaring omissions. Maybe Miranda Lambert doesn&#8217;t have as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=972&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Album Review &#8211; The Little Willies &#8211; &#8220;For The Good Times&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Little Willies For The Good Times **** 1/2 Isn&#8217;t it refreshing? The first new country album of 2012 also marks the year&#8217;s first great one. A sequel of sorts to the one-off side project from Jazz/pop vocalist Norah Jones and vocalist Richard Julian (among others), For The Good Times features a smart mix of tunes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=962&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep On Keeping On: 2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My yearly chance to brag or thank everyone who has found my little blog and helped make it a success. Here&#8217;s the report on how my blog weathered 2011: Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 8,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=947&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The brilliance of &#8220;Celebrity&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to the radio the other day when Brad Paisley&#8217;s 2003 #3 hit &#8220;Celebrity&#8221; came on. Listening to the lyrics discussing month long marriages, crying on Barbara Walter&#8217;s couch, and unlimited stents in rehab got me thinking. In the 9 years since this song charted, not only hasn&#8217;t it aged, but it&#8217;s become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=942&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My &#8220;Chaos Theory&#8221; playlist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week C.M. Wilcox of Country California posted his &#8220;chaos theory&#8221; playlist for 2011. In essence, he mixed all the music he purchased in 2011 into one playlist on iTunes and hit shuffle. The first 20 entries comprised the list. A couple of commenters did the same, adding their lists to the conversation. I thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=938&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Favorite Country Albums of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who says real country music is dead? Putting aside the commercial successes that forgot about quality, here is my take for music that mattered in 2011. These albums may not have sold a heck of a lot or even garnered the recognition they warranted, but they achived the mark of great music &#8211; the songs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=923&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 45 favorite country singles of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my picks for the best of the best, the cream of the crop for country singles in 2011. See, the year wasn&#8217;t all bad, now was it? 45. Steel Magnolia &#8211; &#8220;Last Night Again&#8221; A flirty romance tale finding a couple eyeing each other from across the room is made even sweeter  knowing Megan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=876&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 40 Worst Country Singles of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here you go. My least favorite country singles of 2011. You&#8217;ll see some huge hits here. But remember it isn&#8217;t about chart performance, but rather about quality: 40. Ronnie Dunn &#8211; &#8220;Bleed Red&#8221; On his solo debut Dunn could&#8217;ve worn any hat. But he choose to go down the route of being over-produced and turned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=878&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EP Review &#8211; Julie Roberts &#8211; &#8220;Who Needs Mistletoe&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/ep-review-julie-roberts-who-needs-mistletoe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julie Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Who Needs Mistletoe album review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Julie Roberts Who Needs Mistletoe * * * * * Every year with anticipation, I look forward to adding new Christmas recordings to my personal collection, which I’ve been steadily adding to for more then fifteen years. When I heard Julie Roberts had a holiday record available for download, I jumped at the opportunity to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=903&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t Know A Thing About Me</title>
		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/you-dont-know-a-thing-about-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Kind of Country]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I began my journey into the broader world of country music blogging last June, I can&#8217;t believe all the different posts I&#8217;ve accumulated. Writing for My Kind of Country is very rewarding and adding my voice to the larger country music conversation drives me to continue to write and write. I&#8217;ve never written so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=880&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Album Review &#8211; Miranda Lambert &#8220;Four The Record&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/album-review-miranda-lambert-four-the-record/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 CMA Female Vocalist of the Year]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blake Shelton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandi Carlile]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Rawlings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four The Record]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Welch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kacey Musgraves]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Little Big Town]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loretta Lynn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miranda Lambert Four The Record * * * * 1/2 Miranda Lambert is by and large my favorite contemporary female artist because of her intrinsic ability to blend both the artistic and commercial sensibilities of country music on her records. She appeals to country radio with singles ready for heavy rotation yet restrains from populating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=873&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life is a pretty fantastic journey</title>
		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/life-is-a-pretty-fantastic-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Random thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Braddock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.R. Journey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between the many events going on in my life right now, I neglected an important milestone &#8211; the two-year anniversary of my blog! I can&#8217;t believe how much my writing has grown since I began this blog in October 2009. As I sit here on Halloween night 2011, I think about the rewards I&#8217;ve reaped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=866&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Album Review &#8211; George Strait &#8220;Here For A Good Time&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/album-review-george-strait-here-for-a-good-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bubba Strait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Dillon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith Hill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Strait Here For A Good Time * * * * On the title track to his new album, George Strait sings “I’m not here for a long time/but I’m here for a good time,” suggesting an attitude shift towards lightening up the mood and enjoying whatever remains of his time on earth. The contradiction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=846&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Album Review &#8211; Pistol Annies &#8211; &#8216;Hell On Heels&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/album-review-pistol-annies-hell-on-heels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angaleena Presley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Monroe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Paisley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Chapin Carpenter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pistol Annies Hell On Heels * * * * * Much has been made lately about the lack of solo female artists charting top 30 singles. An alarm was sounded bringing attention to just how few genuine female superstars are working in the genre today. But instead of focusing on the lack of female artists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=843&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concert Review &#8211; Sara Evans at the Cape Cod Melody Tent</title>
		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/concert-review-sara-evans-at-the-cape-cod-melody-tent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concert Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Country Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Almost Famous on 95.9 WATD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cape Cod Melody Tent]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Delbert McClinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jake Hill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not since Jennifer Nettles brought her lead-with-passion approach to modern country has a singer enthralled me like Sara Evans did last night at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis, MA. She left her blood and guts on the stage as she powered through massive hit single after massive hit single. Sounding even better live [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=832&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concert Review &#8211; Martina McBride at the South Shore Music Circus</title>
		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/concert-review-martina-mcbride-at-the-south-shore-music-circus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concert Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Country Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Withers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blaine Larsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Young]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Lauderdale]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joey + Rory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nashville Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rory Lee Feek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in eleven years, Martina McBride held residence at the South Shore Music Circus, an in-the-round concert tent complete with a rotating stage, for two shows Aug 6-7. Judging by the sold out crowd, the fans were as happy to see McBride as she was to be back in Cohasset, Ma. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=796&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Favorite Songs By Favorite Artists &#8211; Martina McBride</title>
		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/favorite-songs-by-favorite-artists-martina-mcbride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Country Music Coutdowns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FSBFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Braddock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Country Universe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Favorite Songs By Favorite Artists (FSBFA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leeann Ward]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Started by country blogger Leeann Ward from Country Universe, Favorite Songs by Favorite Artists (FSBFA) is a rundown of a writer&#8217;s 25 favorite songs by an artist. I felt compelled to compile a list of my own after going to see Martina in concert earlier this month. Martina McBride is a singer easy to take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=792&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may be a country music fan at heart, but I&#8217;m still deeply saddened by the death of Amy Winehouse. I recognize quality music when I here it, and Back To Black was as solid any album as any to see release in 2006. I was first exposed to her music in August of 2007 when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=785&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Kind of Country</title>
		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/my-kind-of-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Strait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.R. Journey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Roberts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[My Kind of Country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Travis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thompson Square]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My lack in recent updates is partly do to an exciting opportunity I accepted over a month ago. I&#8217;m now a staff writer for My Kind of Country, a popular country music blog. That doesn&#8217;t mean this blog is going anywhere, it&#8217;s just an extension of my love for country music. My duties are to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=772&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://jonopappalardo.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/30-day-song-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Pappalardo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ashton Shepherd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Daniels Band]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tim McGraw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracy Lawrence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent trend on Facebook is the ever popular &#8220;30 Day Song Challenge&#8221; a game that has people posting a song a day relating to a theme. When the 30 days are through, all of your friends will know just a little more about you &#8211; though the songs that shaped you in some way. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonopappalardo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9838177&amp;post=703&amp;subd=jonopappalardo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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