Where is Putnam County? Is it a state of mind? Small-town anywhere? Or really a place that lives in all our hearts? Nope, it's in Tennessee, sorry, should have said that earlier. Song by Song bids farewell to Catherine Hirst as we take one last road-trip together down the two-lane before realising the battery's gone flat in the… the pick-up truck of our… er… podcast feed aggregator… anyone got some jumper-cables for this analogy?
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Putnam County, Nighthawks At The Diner, Tom Waits (1975)
John Wayne Gacy, Jr., Illinois, Sufjan Stevens (2005)
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