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- Steve Yasko
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- "Tift Merritt: In her own words"
- Summary: Drinking sherry with the angels, and other tales from a Southern songwriter.
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Get to Know Tift One Wonderful Moment at a Time!
Steve Yasko
Posted on October 02, 2004 at 08:05 PM
WUNC knows how to do these pieces. The 3:30 is a perfect length..same a record so it makes this essay easy for music stations like ours to use.
There are just enough personal stories mixed with Tift's viewpoints about music to make the piece interesting because the segments are prioritized and skillfully edited.
One note to all news stations doing these kinds of peices: Check with the music station's play lists to see what single we are playing. This piece omits a cut from Good Hearted Man, now in rotation in many non-comm triple A stations. Not a big thing really as we would most likely follow this piece with the single, but something to keep in mind.