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The Decemberists
Wednesday, October 25, at the Gypsy Tea Room
By Austin Powel
Oct 19, 2006
There's an unspoken requirement for guitar-strumming English majors to develop a penchant for lyricism that's worthy of canonization in Norton's Anthology. The Decemberists' Colin Meloy creates candid characters, as Charles Dickens did, in the same manner that Will Johnson, of Centro-matic fame, conveys the distinctly Southern grotesque of William Faulkner...
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