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Top 5 'Country Roads' Covers

June 3, 2008




5 Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. So I’m watching this first YouTube clip of Me First and The Gimme Gimmes and I have to say I am shocked. Standing on stage are around four-five dudes, all dressed in country garb, button down shirts, big ol’ belt bucks, stonewashed jeans, boots and cowboy hats. They are talking to the crowd when one guy says something about a “flaming John Denver” and they start into this punk-rock cover tribute of West Virginia’s most famous song. And it’s, well, strange. Granted, the lead singer sounds about as talented as our editor Justin McIntosh taking the mic and the music seems even too rushed for punk rock, but the crowd ate it up. Hell, if I was there I’d probably eat it up too even though I’m not originally from there.





4 Oliva Newton-John. Ethereal and really really out there, Olivia Newton-John unleashes her innocently soft vocals on John Denver’s c

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‘Country Roads’ Kept Taffy Nivert Danoff Home

June 3, 2008



Taffy Nivert Danoff is one of the co-writers of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” — the official fight song of the WVU Mountaineers. It’s been played at every home game since 1972. Taffy was a co-collaborator on many

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Thirty Minutes with Morgan Spurlock

May 20, 2008

The connection was bad but even from 4,370 miles away I could hear the concern in Morgan Spurlock’s voice. I could hear him talk about what he had done with pride, and while that’s not rare with a filmmaker, I was captivated by it.

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Brian Logan No Longer Wrestling with the Past

May 7, 2008

The YouTube footage looks bad, real bad. You see an enraged Brian Logan leap from the ring and clothesline a fan who appears to be walking away. A fight materializes and then the video cuts out.

Jump to April 18, 2008. Brian Logan, in his

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Memorable Mustached Men of the Mountains

April 22, 2008

The mustache is indeed an enigmatic symbol of masculinity. Some men are even defined by their mustache, Charlie Chapin, Tom Selleck and Adolf Hitler. Two of these were international tragedies; the other was in the movie business. Mustached men have b

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Save the Earth one Cell Phone At a Time

April 8, 2008

Consumers often overlook the impact of cell phone production on the environment. Until the past few years, the truth about cell phone components and the effect of those ingredients on the areas from which they’re derived, hasn’t been told.

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