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Song Stories

“Acid Tongue”

Jenny Lewis | 2008

Jenny Lewis dropped LSD just once, and she doesn’t plan on doing it again. But the former Rilo Kiley frontwoman devoted this song to her one odd and scary trip. "I found the psychedelic experience to be totally terrifying,” she said. "I don't need psychedelics. I've lived a good and strange life.” Recorded live with her acoustic guitar and an all-male chorus, "Acid Tongue" is a stripped-down country tune with the warmth of a gospel choir -- a fitting complement to Lewis’ sultry voice.

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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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