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• Also, You Win a Truck! by Heart on a Stick

  "What an awkward, phony-looking production this Nashville Star thing is.  I guess it's been on for years - hello, Miranda Lambert (and...um... um...) - but either they retooled it for its network debut and stuff hasn't settled, yet, or it's just perpetually creaky and ham-handed.  I was hoping for something sort..."

• "Nashville Star": Should The Sixth Season Be My First? [It's Not American Idol, But Really, What Is?] by Idolator

  "Nashville Star's sixth season premiered last night on NBC, which brought one question to mind: Six seasons? Really? And another: Should I be watching this debacle? Well, the show did uncover Miranda Lambert, one of the few reality-show-derived musicians who's managed to release an album I enjoy listening to in..."

• Guilty Pleasures Week: Day One, "Standing Outside The Fire" Garth Brooks by ThaBombShelter

  "I am fully confident that any true music lover has at least a few guilty pleasures hiding somewhere in their iTunes library. If you've seen the new Ford commercial for the Sync ("Play artist, Michael Bolton...") you know what I'm talking about. I have some pretty big doozies in my..."

• Book Notes - Sam Quinones ("Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream") by Largehearted Boy

  " RSS feedIn the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. One afternoon I heard Sam Quinones on NPR's All Things Considered, talking about his book, Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration. As..."