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Herald-Leader music writer Walter Tunis’ swan song: Remembering 45 years of high notes

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By Walter Tunis 
| Lexington Herald-Leader
AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Walter Tunis wrote for the Lexington Herald-Leader for 45½ years beginning in 1980. Farewell column to readers remembers Wayne Shorter, John Prine interviews. Tunis plans to continue writing about musicians in the future outside the Herald-Leader.
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Herald-Leader music writer Walter Tunis’ swan song: Remembering 45 years of high notes

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By Walter Tunis 
| Yahoo Entertainment
When journeying to Pittsburgh in November 1980 to spend Thanksgiving weekend with my then-girlfriend, a trip that included meeting her parents, I came armed with something I thought was pretty spectacular: My first published story in the Lexington Herald-Leader. It was a review of a Don McLean concert at the University of Kentucky Center for the Arts, a sprawling new performance facility just over a year old. It would be renamed the Singletary Center for the Arts in 1987.
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Heralded young guitarist bringing her unique musical style to Lexington Original

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By Walter Tunis 
| Lexington Herald-Leader
AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Williams will perform May 27 at Singletary Center Recital Hall. She uses tap shoes, guitar-body percussion and a kalimba onstage. Acadia is her Nonesuch debut and includes guest collaborators. After three albums of instrumentally inclined music possessing both the traditional depth of folk and the melodic accessibility of pop, Yasmin Williams has forged a devout fanbase.
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