by Elliott Sharp

Six Songs About American Cities

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America! Songs about the city from the Memphis Jug Band, Sugar-N-Spice, Angels of Light, Steely Dan, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, and Liz Phair.

Six Songs About Whiskey

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Thanks, whiskey! Drinking music from Tex Ritter, Willie Dixon, Lotte Lenya, Eyehategod, Texas Top Hands, and The Pogues.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Greatest Con

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He hid in dark alleyways and revealed his ass to women walking by. “What they saw was not the obscene thing, I never even thought of that, it was the ridiculous thing,” he wrote.