Bushkin.

You treat me like a fool.

Over the years that I've been doing revisionist history,

I've done a number of episodes about music,

and they're some of my favorites. And in going back and listening to those episodes, I realize they're all about versions

of the same thing. Well, actually, that's way too vague. About the way that specific songs

borrowed into my consciousness 10, 20, 30, even 40 years ago, and have stayed there

ever since.

Which is odd because I'm not musical.

I don't play an instrument.

I don't even know what a chord is, but there is almost nothing that brings me more joy than

sitting down with a musician.

So I thought we'd reprise four of my favorite music episodes

from the archives of revisionist history. A trip to Nashville to talk about sad songs. Another

trip to Nashville to talk about Elvis, of course. I wonder if you want someone tonight. A third

is based around a magical afternoon I spent with Randy Newman.

Can I prevail on you?

Did you just do a little bit of Marie?

Sure.

So I love that song so much.

Thank you very much.

And the last of them took me to the mat, to a pub in North London, to the story of Leonard

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