{"id":8188,"date":"2013-12-18T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8188"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:23:40","slug":"hillbilly-highway-top-5-tunes-i-come-across-on-the-highway-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/12\/18\/hillbilly-highway-top-5-tunes-i-come-across-on-the-highway-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillbilly Highway – 5 Beauty Tunes I Come Across on the Highway in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Sheldon Birnie<\/strong><\/p>\n

End of the year is here, which means it’s time \u00a0Best of 2013 List Season.\u00a0Stylus<\/em> will be posting our contributors’ Best Ofs here in the coming weeks, but I figured I’d get a jump and share with you some of my favourite tunes from the Hillbilly Highway this past year.<\/p>\n

Will the list be groundbreaking? Probably not! Does it really matter what 5 Tunes I dug the most this past year? Well, maybe a little bit… to me! Does anybody really care? Probably not! But — most importantly — will it be fun? Yes, I think it will! So, without any further ado, here’s 5 Beauty Tunes I Come Across on the Hillbilly Highway in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Thirteen, y’all.<\/p>\n

Dawes – Hey Lover<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here we have a hilarious love tune from Dawes, who at times can come across as overly earnest (in an endearing way, of course). This one is straight up hilarious. “Blue and white racing striped pick-up truck” has got to be my single favourite line of the year. The rest of Stories Don’t End<\/i> is pretty dang decent, too, but this one just makes me smile every time. The Blake Mills original is pretty snazzy<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n