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...songwriters had been there before. Gaudio was writing blame songs long before he hooked up with the Seasons. "I cried for you, now cry for me ... You made a fool of me, so now I'm leavin' you." And Crewe's "Silhouettes," written with Frank Slay, Jr., is an early rock-'n-roll story song, in which the singer pines that he's seen his girl kiss another guy behind her drawn windowshade. His furious knocks on the building's door are answered by a stranger, who "said to my shock / 'You're on the wrong block.'" Finally he rushes...
...turned back to look at her devastated home. "It's even worse in there than I thought it would be, and I can't find any pictures or memories," said Hagan, 40. "But I'm still going to rebuild. I was born and raised here. I ain't leavin...
...visitor who thinks he knows something about the blues can't quite place them. Who wrote that one? "That's mine," says Luther, bashful but proud. "Our next record is gon' be all originals. But it's still gon' be hill-country music. I mean, we're not leavin' here." They can't; the hills are in them...
...Sissy Spacek). The local river rises and floods their corn crop; an agricultural cartel tries to buy them out; the mean old banks threaten to foreclose on their land; and Mae gets her arm caught in a corn- picking machine. But Tom will not be swayed: "I ain't leavin'. 'Cept in a box." And so he joins the farm women of Places in the Heart and Country as Hollywood's nominee for the collective American hero...
...freight train leavin' town...