A couple months ago I was driving around and listening to the Sirius XM station 1st Wave when a song came on that I hadn't heard before: the Pretenders'"My City Was Gone." The track had a drum sound straight out of Talking Heads' version of "Take Me to the River" and an equally killer bass line, except that unlike most other rock-gone-disco cuts this one had bluesy guitar licks that never verged on the cutting rhythmic funk that most disco guitars adopt.…
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