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The power of a lasting song is that it breaks free of its origins. Hits should be more than celebrity narratives.

As I pondered my New Year’s resolution, the image of Addis Ababa in the late 1960s on my laptop screensaver brought to mind Pete Seeger’s “Little Boxes” and ...

The Maryland native and Nashville lifer sang the devastating indictment of two-faced friends, “Fake Flowers,” a lilting “Under the Sun,” and the title track, a declaration to live a life uninhibited. ...