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Videos of the Day – week of 1/27/20

1/27 – Yola may not have won at The Grammys (she was up for Best New Artist and a couple of Americana category awards) but she was great last week on The Tonight Show (and the Deluxe version of one of Jeff’s Top 5 albums of last year has recently been released)

1/28 – ICYMI: Patti Smith covered Neil Young on The Tonight Show earlier this month…

1/29 – Donna Missal has released a couple of new tracks in recent weeks, including one we played today on the News at Noon.  Here’s a little background …

1/30 – last week saw the release of Pearl Jam’s new single from their 1st album in 7 years…this week saw the release of the 2nd video for the song, in case you were missing performance footage interspersed with the climate change footage from the 1st version…

1/31 – as heard yesterday on the News at Noon, Sea Wolf is back with a new album out 3/20

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