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The universal nostalgia for “Take Me Home, Country Roads”

The first line of John Denver’s song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” calls West Virginia “Almost Heaven,” and when you’re up in the mountains, that description can feel pretty accurate. Almost Heaven, West VirginiaBlue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah RiverLife is old there, older than the treesYounger than the mountains, growing like a breeze  Country roads, take…

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Gracie Abrams: Now center stage

At 26, singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams has won praise from critics and fans for her intimate songs – whispered words that become anthems, and which the shy girl-turned-superstar now performs to sold-out arenas. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Abrams about how she worked up the nerve to post her early songs online. Abrams also discusses being…

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Behind the scenes of "The Pitt"

The Emmy-winning HBO Max drama “The Pitt” immerses viewers in the hour-by-hour struggles faced by the overworked-yet-superhuman emergency room staff at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook visits the series’ hyper-realistic set at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, Calif. (where cast members undergo a two-week medical boot…

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7/12: Sunday Morning

Hosted by Tracy Smith. Featured: The only successful coup in U.S. history; Behind the scenes of “The Pitt”; Trump’s monumental reimagining of Washington, D.C.; singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams; “Take Me Home, Country Roads”; and a Tuscany tradition: wine barrel races. Source link

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