Good morning and happy Monday.

This goes welcome to our new-ish weekly advance mini episode.

The first communicate of the week between you and yours truly.

The place for us to set the table for everything we're going to be discussing and listening

to this week specifically this week's full episode of Discretsland on Merrill Haggard coming

tomorrow as always on Tuesday as well as any and all music news relevant to Discretsland

and its many subjects.

And of course this is where we start the conversation that we continue or for voicemail, text, social

media and in our Thursday bonus episodes.

Okay.

It is Merrill Haggard week here in Discretsland.

And in this week's mini episode that you are currently listening to, we're doing things

a little differently today.

I normally think about what's going into these episodes and record them a day or two before

they drop.

Keeps it fresh.

I don't get too far out ahead of things.

Topical.

But for this episode, I have to record a full week in advance, which is okay except for

the fact that it makes discussing the topical nature of the Billboard charts relevant to this

week's subject.

I feel like we normally do a little suspect because well from the week that I record this

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