I am getting a fair amount of pushback/mockery from The Young People in internet-land for having said that I like the group Pomplamoose. The tone is pretty much how I would have sounded back in the day if my mom had said how much she liked that nice young Wayne Newton.
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Oh well. I will keep my musical tastes to myself for the nonce -- although, I dare you to mock my man Bill Evans! Or Kurt Elling! Or Diane Schuur. Or the Beach Boys, or...
And I'll make only this one exception, to which I figure I'm entitled. Ladies and gentlemen, out of Coventry, England, my new favorite group: The Fallows ! No joke.
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James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States and once worked as President Carter's chief speechwriter. He and his wife, Deborah Fallows, are the authors of the new book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America, which has been a New York Times best-seller and is the basis of a forthcoming HBO documentary.