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    ESSAYS: ‘David Bowie, Dad & Me’

    January 13, 2021 /

    Here's a new dispatch from our "Play That Funky Music Bureau"—a touching memoir of the ties between a young West Virginia-born writer and her Dad woven by the music of David Bowie—who have been 74 on January 8.

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    BREAKING: We Interrupt this Insurrection for David Bowie News

    January 8, 2021 /

    WestVirginiaVille marks David Bowie's 74th birthday today with news from our "Play That Funky Music" News Department. Wait—what does Bowie have to do with West Virginia?! Read and watch on.

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    “LAY THAT BURDEN DOWN”: A Musical Homage to John Lewis, Sung by Lady D

    September 24, 2020 /

    Check out the world premiere of the music video of the Ron Sowell/Jon Wikstrom song "Lay Down That Burden," sung by Lady D and inspired by the life, courage, and heart of John Lewis, whose exampe is ever more needed now in America.

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    The West Virginia Musician Who Helped Draw Bob Dylan to Nashville

    May 29, 2020 /

    West Virginia may not immediately come to mind when you think of Bob Dylan's influential 1965 record "Highway 61 Revisited," which one writer says that in an important sense "started" the 1960s. Think again.

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