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Various Artists: Take Me Home – A Tribute to John Denver

Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 2 August 2000

A FEW YEARS back, King Kong's Ethan Buckler taught me the essentials of a good poem or lyric: "It must have three things: the visual, the sensual, and the emotional. Want to hear an example? Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy…'"

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