Dablog by DaSLOB

So glad we had this time together

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:43:00 +0000

The old show has ended...the new show has just begun!

One Track Mind: The Allman Brothers Band "Melissa" (1972)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:44:00 +0000

by Pico

Long before I was able to digest the epic, twenty-five minute meandering noodlings of Dicky Betts and Duane Allman, I deeply dug the Allman Brothers' "Melissa." It's a wistful, country-flavored ballad that was easy to learn how to play on a beat-up Yamaha acoustic guitar, and since it was one of the more popular cuts from Eat A Peach, I'm sure I wasn't the only kid who tried to take it on.

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Arthur Brown - The Voice Of Love (2008)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0000

by Pico

From the God Of Hellfire to an Angel Of Love?

That's the one-hit wonder from 1968 who brought us that singularly psychedelic, bombastic classic "Fire." Brown had been mostly out of the public focus since then, but one of rock's most flashy and colorful characters never faded. Nah, he was merely obscured.

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Sleeper picks: Dave Brubeck, "Trio Brubeck" (1993)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:11:00 +0000

NICK DERISO: "Trio Brubeck," though not the first time that Dad Dave had collaborated with the kids, had the randy feel of a whole new direction for the legendary pianist.

Following the 1970s recording "Two Generations of Brubeck," and the more recent "Quiet as the Moon" with son Darius (also on MusicMasters), Brubeck sat down with other sons Chris and Dan for his first trio work in some time.

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Quickies: Three From Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:00:00 +0000

For this installment of Quickies, the inaugural releases of a new label dedicated to presenting the music of talented up and coming jazz musicians are highlighted. These musicians are all members of an artist collective, the Brooklyn Jazz Underground, and this spring saw the launching of the collective's Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records.

BJU Records' mission statement goes like this:

"Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records is an independent and artist-run label committed to creative and adventurous contemporary improvised music. We strive to put out quality recordings that define the shape of today's jazz. BJU Records is a sister company of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground bandleader collective."

Sounds to me like a worthy goal to aspire to.

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DaSlobTribute: Cab Calloway

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:10:00 +0000

NICK DERISO: Between the tombstones of the two World Wars, there emerged the knock-down joys of swing music. Perhaps no single figure from the period was more affable, or more famous, than was Cab Calloway.

Turns out, he's still salve for a conflict-weary country, even after all this time.

Back then, the repeal of Prohibition, and the slow upward climb of American economics after the Great Depression fueled the frenzy around this upbeat jazz. The time was right, and maybe it is again, for an explosive, even wild, popular music.

Enter the hip phraseology -- ooh-bop-sh'bam! -- fresh, lowdown jackets and wide-brimmed hats. Enter, too, Cabell Calloway, who began his career as a big-band leader in 1929.

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One Track Mind: Al Green with Chicago "Tired Of Being Alone" (1973)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0000

by Pico

Last month Al Green released a new album, Lay It Down, which I'd recommend to any fan of pure, old-school soul. Later this month Chicago's Stone Of Sisyphus, originally record in 1993, will finally be officially released. But twenty years even before that was taped, both of these acts were regulars at the top of the charts. It would've been a sublime combination if both of them had recorded together then at the peak of their respective careers.

Actually, for one song, they did just that.

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Walter Becker - 11 Tracks Of Whack (1994)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0000

by Pico

It's not our nature here to get stuck on an artist; there's too many of 'em worth chatting up to get into a rut on a single one. No siree, we love 'em and leave 'em and maybe love 'em again after an appropriate separation period. Case in point: Nick revisiting the Prince Of Darkness just the other day after we've ignored him for a while.

So I'm surprising myself writing about a Walter Becker album for the second time this week (don't worry, there's no more forthcoming, as we'll have his discography completely covered after this). In this case, covering Becker's debut solo album 11 Tracks Of Whack makes sense to provide more perspective to his brand-new Circus Money CD. It's probably safe to assume that most people who've read that review have never heard the former album and since I broached it, curiosity could possibly set in.

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Manu Dibango, "Wakafrika" (1994)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:01:00 +0000

NICK DERISO: Dibango has a perfectly balanced feel for both the lithe American jazz form but also the murkier pleasures of traditional African music.

What's almost criminal is that he couldn't elicit a second glance on your average U.S. sidewalk. That, despite the fact that Dibango, 60 at the time of this recording, scored his first international hit in 1972, the million-selling "Soul Makossa."

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Miles Davis, "Sorcerer" (1967)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:06:00 +0000

NICK DERISO: "Sorcerer" would find Miles Davis letting go of the wheel.

That willingness to experiment girded listeners for the coming journey between the more traditional approach Davis was then rapidly abandoning and an aggressive ingenuity which would soon become closely associated with this, his "second great group."

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Walter Becker - Circus Money (2008)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0000

by Pico

Steely Dan albums don't come around that often. Donald Fagen records appear even less frequently. Walter Becker CD's are rarer still: he gave us 11 Tracks Of Whack back in 1994, a delightfully campy glimpse into facets of himself he didn't often show as co-founder of Steely Dan. So far, that's been the entire catalog of Walter Becker, solo artist.

Until today, with the official unfurling of Circus Money.

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Betty Carter, with Kenny Burrell, "Inside Betty Carter" (1964)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:19:00 +0000

NICK DERISO: Starting her career with a winning performance at a Paradise Theater amateur contest in her native Detroit, Betty Carter first came to a large number of ears as a vocalist with Lionel Hampton's group in the late 1940s. (Hamp, in fact, is the one who gave her the early nickname Betty Bebop.)

Later, she partnered with Ray Charles for a popular series of tunes, including the timeless "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (embedded below).

That made her counting this record (as well as the 1957 LP "Out There," on the Peacock label) as one of her favorites all the more notable.

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Milt Jackson, "The Prophet Speaks" (1994)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:25:00 +0000

NICK DERISO: The second LP by vibesman Milt Jackson on Quincy Jones' Qwest label made his late-career reemergence complete.

Where the earlier "Reverence and Compassion" featured small-group offerings coupled with lush, orchestral pieces, "The Prophet Speaks" -- issued just five years before Jackson's passing -- was far bluesier and much more substantial.

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Quickies: Albuquerque/Amirom/Barata, Brian Blade Fellowship, Paolo Nutini

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0000

by Pico

Here we are nearly a week into June and I'm still stuck on some May releases. Time to clear the docket a little bit so we can push ahead with some newer stuff. Enter the ever-handy vehicle for expressing briefer thoughts, Quickies.

True to the tagline at the end, I also inserted a "new to me" selection; one that's been out there stateside for almost a year and a half now, but a good friend sent to me just recently. It's a CD by a young guy from Scotland whose last name I still can't pronounce, but I've had a hard time keeping his music out of my rotation for the last month or so.

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Various artists, "Classic Piano Blues" (2008)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:04:00 +0000

NICK DERISO: This upcoming Smithsonian Folkways release is a hot-dawg compilation that sets up both as primer for the new-to-this and reminder for the been-there-done-that crowd.

A remarkably deep catalogue has helped the label continue for years with a series of myth-confirming sets. "Classic Piano Blues" is no different, featuring everything from Meade "Lux" Lewis to Champion Jack Dupree, from Kentwood, La.-native Little Brother Montgomery to Memphis Slim (appearing on "Wish Me Well" with bassist/Chess Svengali Willie Dixon).

And, in so doing, the record manages to take in the full breadth of piano styles -- including boogie-woogie, midnight chock- or barrelhouse, stride, riverboat saloon tunes, even more sophisticated jazz (notably from Sammy Price).

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Mike Zito - Today (2008)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0000

by Pico

With the tragic, unexpected death of Sean Costello, the blues world lost a guy I and others thought was the Next Big Thing in that idiom. The good news is that there are still others out there working hard to put their own stamp on the blues with a level of passion and prowess that approaches Costello's. One of those guys is St. Louis' own Mike Zito.

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Rerun: Bo Diddley, 1928-2008

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:06:00 +0000

Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of musicians, died today after months of ill health. He was 79. Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation. This One Track Mind appeared on our Web site last December.

NICK DERISO: I'm always startled when "Bo Diddley" -- all fast-driving rhythms and nervy aggression -- gets going. Diddley ditched chord changes for propulsive determination 50 years ago, and it's still news.

Like its namesake, "Bo Diddley" is something you can't get out of your head. Perhaps that's because the song, reduced to stark simplicity, is almost all rhythm.

There's no question rock music was better for it. By speeding up and pushing forward the traditional rumba beat, not to mention adding some searing guitar distortion, Diddley opened a door that the British Invasion, punk music, hip hop and new wave would later rush through.

Still, for all of Bo Diddley's -- and "Bo Diddley's" -- coiled revelation, that shave-and-a-haircut, two-bits beat didn't start with the man who made it famous. The sound, called kpanlogo, originates from Ghana, West Africa. Typically, it involves two drummers -- with the supporting player keeping time while the leader solos.

But Diddley had a flair for self promotion that belied his hard-scrabble roots.

Born Otha Ellas Bates but abandoned in McComb, Miss., Diddley later took the name Ellas McDaniel after a cousin who adopted him. He became known as Bo Diddley during a brief career as a boxer. Later, he began singing in between odd jobs, and found his muse in the signature elements of music by John Lee Hooker, Louis Jordan and Muddy Waters.

"Bo Diddley" (featuring Waters sideman Otis Spann on piano, by the way) was all of that, only buried beneath this remarkable rhythm -- something which subsequently simply became known as "the Diddley beat."

Not quite: A similar rhythm drove "Hambone" by Red Saunders and his Orchestra -- Delores Hawkins provided some memorably big howls -- a full three years before.

Kpanlogo-style drumming, in fact, made several appearances in the previous decade, notably showing up on a post-war Gene Krupa recording. "Bo Diddley" even bears a passing resemblance to Gene Autry's 1942 hit "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle."

Diddley, however, took his custom-made rectangular guitar and bashed people over the head with so many self-referential efforts that we soon forgot about all that. He followed "Bo Diddley" with "Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger," "Hey, Bo Diddley," "Bo's A Lumberjack" and "Diddley Daddy," among many, many others.

Bo loved him some Bo, alright. And now, so do we.

Whatever happened to Red Saunders, anyway?

"One Track Mind" is a more-or-less weekly drool over a single song selected on a whim and a short thesis on why you should be drooling over it, too.

Purchase: Bo Diddley - His Best: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection (1997)

DaSlobGuide: More of 2008's great Southern summer concert dates

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:05:00 +0000

Continuing our summer series highlighting recent review subjects who are set to appear in concert tours and some funky festivals across the South in the coming months. Here's a quick look at the shows, with links to our thoughts on each:

DELFEAYO MARSALIS, various dates including Snug Harbor, June 8, New Orleans: Delfeayo's trombone is, in many ways, more articulate than his famous sibling's trumpet -- simply because it's so nimble. Marsalis' solos are, by turns, baffling and ingratiating -- all with one tube slide.
(504) 949-0696; or www.snugjazz.com

COWBOY MOUTH, various dates including the Peabody Hotel's Rivertop, June 13, Little Rock, Ark.: Emerged in the early 1990s as a rugged, but distinctly popular rock alternative to the typical fiddle-and-rubboard fare associated with Louisiana music. This New Orleans-based group has likely managed such remarkable longevity because it remains capable of spare and emotionally direct work, too.
501-399-8059; or www.rivertopparty.com/default.aspx.

HENRY ROLLINS, Tipitina's Uptown, June 25, New Orleans: Ex-screamer with the seminal screamer Black Flag, he is now almost assuredly rock's first post-punk hyphenate: tattooed book writer, spoken-word performer, Lollapalooza alum, cable TV show host.
(504) 895-8477; or www.ticketweb.com.

DOYLE BRAMHALL II, Antone's, July 11-12, Austin, Texas.: Bramhall has been around so much fame and combined with his songwriting and guitar talents, it's downright shocking that he hasn't become more than an underground hero himself.
www.antones.net.

JAMES HUNTER, Antone's, July 16, Austin Texas.: A remarkably soulful presence in the style of Jackie Wilson, Van Morrison, Ray Charles and (primarily) Sam Cooke, Hunter is refreshingly retro, not in the sense of simply recalling the familiar but of taking those expectations to a new place.
www.antones.net.

MARK KNOPFLER of Dire Straits, various dates including Chastain Park Amphitheatre, July 29, Atlanta, Ga.: His playing is expansive, yet particular. Stretching out into jazz innovation, Knopfler (pictured above) oftens widens a tune's perspective -- and, similarly, our own.
www.ticketmaster.com.

CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH, Live at the Garden, Aug. 9, Memphis, Tenn.: These folk-rock sexagenarians haven't stopped playing the hits from the flower-power era that have rightfully put them near the top of the heap among that generation's singer-songwriters. Not even close. It seems like every time you turn around, Crosby, Still and Nash (and sometimes Young) are touring in one configuration or another.
www.ticketmaster.com

Here's a link to previous entries in this series.

One Track Mind: Michael Franks "Popsicle Toes" (1975)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Sat, 31 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000

by Pico

Most of the times that I choose a song for this here "One Track Mind" series is because the song simply sounds good to me. Then I'll dive into my spiel as to why it does. Today's OTM has it's own intrinsic virtues, too, but it gets the focus this time because of a phone call I got yesterday.

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DaSlobGuide: 2008's Southern summer shows

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:52:00 +0000

Several of DaBlog's more recent review subjects are set to appear in concert tours and some funky festivals across the South this summer. Here's a quick look at the dates, with links to our thoughts on each:

DAVID ALLAN COE, Hard Rock Live, May 30, Biloxi, Miss. : If you're talking outlaw -- real outlaw; as in your basic leather-wearing, bad-attitude-having, stringy-hair-hanging, tat-sporting, law-breaking (did I mention, bad-attitude-having?), six-gun-waving, hog-riding, too-country-for-country-radio singing outlaw -- David Allan Coe is your prototype. He's the kind of crazy-ass tough guy who would name an album "David Allan Coe or Else." Really.
ticketmaster.com.

NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL-STARS, Hal and Mals, May 31, Jackson, Miss.: A unique blend of music both old and new. They testify to the simple beauty of the blues of their homeland -- even as they are rocking hard.
tickemaster.com.

STEVIE NICKS, Hard Rock Live, June 5, Biloxi, Miss.: While Stevie continues to make something of a career by herself, the fact is she and Fleetwood Mac-mate Lindsey Buckingham are better together than they ever were apart. That said, Nicks hasn't sounded this engaged since she put out "Bella Donna" more than 20 years ago.
ticketmaster.com.

THE CURE, American Airlines Center, June 6, Dallas, Texas: Known for albums best described as monsoons of pouting. More often than not, however, they eventually are revealed as textured masterworks so interesting since they seem to be produced by someone trying to get through something.
ticketmaster.com.

BUDDY GUY, City Stages, June 13-15, Birmingham, Ala.: From bar-walking solos -- thanks to that old 150-foot amp chord -- to his clean, percussive style on a polka-dot guitar, Guy (pictured above) has become a new-age throwback in blues music. Also appearing at the City Stages festival are Diana Ross, the Flaming Lips, Frankie Beverly, the Roots, Galactic.
(800) 277-1700; citystages.org.

CHICAGO, DOOBIE BROTHERS, Superpages.com Center, June 15, Dallas, Texas: Fewer bands in rock have been more unjustly maligned than Chicago. But being responsible for some of the shlockiest pop of the 1980s doesn't diminish the more innovative and ambitious output of the '70s, especially those first five albums. Meanwhile, the departure of Michael McDonald has taken the Doobies back to their roots -- an accessible mixture of boogie rock, country, soul, jazz and R&B.
ticketmaster.com.

B.B. KING, various dates including the Vicksburg Convention Center, June 12, Vicksburg, Miss.: His is a lifetime's tapestry of nights spent weaving stories of love-gone-bad and love-gone-for-good, all with his patented butterfly-wrist guitar twang. Lucky us.
ticketmaster

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Bonnaroo, June 12-15 Manchester, Tenn.: Meaningful and idiosyncratic, this absurdly named band nevertheless continues to find new ways to illuminate. Also appearing at this festival with B.B King, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Kanye West, Willie Nelson, Jack Johnson.
bonnaroo.com

RINGO STARR, Beau Rivage, July 5, Biloxi, Miss. : Ringo once buttressed three of rock's most important songwriters -- and that is Starr's true, largely underestimated legacy. No surprise, then, that mounting a solo career presented its own daunting task for Ringo, who became the only former Beatle to fail to chart an individual No. 1 hit in his native Britain.
http://brivage.admission.com

BILLY BOB THORNTON, Hal and Mals, July 30, Jackson, Miss.: Even four solo records in, you keep expecting Billy Bob Thornton to do something wacky. After all, in the movies, he's Bad Santa. The Astronaut Farmer. That murderous dude in his Oscar-winning plot for "Sling Blade." But, actually, Thornton was a musician first, and he's still a darn good one.
601-948-0888

JOURNEY, various dates including Verizon Wireless Music Center, Aug. 9, Birmingham, Ala.: Let Journey keyboard player Jonathan Cain make their case, after "Don't Stop Believin'" was famously used in the finale to the acclaimed HBO series "The Sopranos": "We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay." Appearing across the South with Heart/Cheap Trick.
ticketmaster.

SHERYL CROW, Superpages.com Center, Aug. 15, Dallas, Texas: You hear vintage Buckingham Nicks in Crow's music; in fact, it's likely what Stevie Nicks would be sounding like if she could just shake those 80's pop/dance blues and get back to her roots.
ticketmaster.

TOM PETTY, various dates including Woodlands Pavilion, Aug. 29, Houston, Texas: Although no one has noticed anymore Petty still makes good records. Over a career that fought off disco, punk, new wave, no wave, grunge and Britney, Petty has never strayed too far from his core influences -- jangly pop, country and straight-ahead rock 'n' roll. Again, you know, lucky us.
www.ticketmaster.com.

ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS, Austin City Limits, Sept. 26-28, Zilker Park, Austin Texas: Two very talented but seemingly incompatible stars who nevertheless sound like an instinctive pairing. That we didn't think of Lep Zeppelin for one second when listening to this amounts to a major accomplishment in our book. This festival also includes Beck, Manu Chao, John Fogerty, David Byrne.
(888) 512-7469; aclfestival.com.

K.J. Denhert - Lucky 7 (2008)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000

by Pico

One in a while, you come across a musician who so effectively cobbles together a wide range of styles so effortlessly you swear you've heard it somewhere before...but you can't quite put a finger on it.

New York City born and bred troubadour K.J. Denhert is one of those musicians.

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Sleeper picks: Don Was, Terence Blanchard, "BackBeat" (1994)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:14:00 +0000

NICK DERISO: The most interesting thing about this soundtrack recording from the Beatle-based movie "BackBeat" was that it didn't include, you know, any Beatles music.

Was -- co-leader of the now-forgotten 1980s rock group Was (Not Was), but more famous by then as the producer who gave Bonnie Raitt's career mouth-to-mouth -- played bass and wrote all the tunes.

But it also didn't include, you know, any pop or blues stuff.

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One Track Mind: Doyle Bramhall II "Marry You" (1998)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Mon, 26 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000

by Pico

Doyle Bramhall II has been around so much fame and combined with his songwriting and guitar talents, it's downright shocking that he hadn't become more than an underground hero himself.

But, man, what a résumé.

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One Track Mind: Death Cab for Cutie, "Summer Skin" (2005)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:08:00 +0000

NICK DERISO: A remarkably intuitive song, full of very adult emotion and haunting insight, from a band with such a frankly ridiculous name. "Summer Skin," in fact, might just be all the more powerful for the lowered expectations that come from a group actually called Death Cab for Cutie.

I don't care if they were a staple on the soundtrack to the popular teen drama "The O.C." I hate the name.

But, with just that much conviction, I love this tune.

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James Carter - Present Tense (2008)

noreply@blogger.com (daSLOB) — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:00:00 +0000

by Pico

Ken Burns' epic PBS documentary on jazz spent nearly all its time on the history up to 1960 and little afterwards. The implication was that jazz stopped becoming revolutionary and more evolutionary after Ornette Coleman ushered in the "new thing" at the beginning of the sixties. Thus, there was little time spent on notable jazz musicians of today. One of the few who got the spotlight, however, was James Carter.

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