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The digital home of music journalist Nicholas Jennings, author of Lightfoot, the bestselling biography of Gordon Lightfoot. Includes a searchable database of current and archived work, including thousands of record reviews and feature articles.

Theory of a Deadman - Theory of a Deadman

Theory of a Deadman - Theory of a DeadmanAlthough he has a sinister voice to match his porn-star appearance, the handlebar-moustachioed Tyler Connolly still manages to sound vulnerable on a few tracks, like the suicide ballad “Last Song.” But most of the numbers rock hard, as you’d expect from any band produced by Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger. And Connolly writes more story songs than your average riff-rock band, mining a motherlode of tales of soured relationships along the lines of “Nothing Could Come Between Us,” the bluesy first single.

Terri Clark - Pain to Kill
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