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Terry Allen’s blood spans a thousand miles

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By Matt Mitchell 
| Paste
Three bronze anthropomorphic deer guard the Scioto River and its neighboring Rich Street Bridge in downtown Columbus. I walked by those sculptures a hundred times when I lived there, but I only recently learned that Terry Allen, the man who wrote the Texican badman obra maestra Juarez, made them. That was twelve years ago, when the city was trying to revive the area and invited Allen to propose an art installation.
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5 songs you need to hear this week

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By Matt Mitchell , Casey Epstein-Gross
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Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. Check out last week’s roundup here. Song of the Week: Mykki Blanco, “Little Feet” This month we’re hanging out, banging out, and “getting right underneath the street light.” With “Little Feet,” Mykki Blanco is leading me down the longest, hottest hallway on the block.
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Gregory Uhlmann finds Extra Stars in his pageant of improvisation

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By Matt Mitchell 
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I’ve become a broken record about Gregory Uhlmann lately—whether that’s because I named him one of this century’s greatest guitarists, because I lobbied to have him record a Paste Session at this year’s Big Ears Festival, or because his band SML was a Best of What’s Next pick last fall. Whatever the reason, I keep winding up in Uhlmann’s cosmos. I wouldn’t call him a rock musician or a jazz musician—or a singer-songwriter, for that matter.
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