# Nagging brain itch: need 3 singer IDs from song lyrics

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 1, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nagging-brain-itch-need-3-singer-ids-from-song-lyrics/479431 "2009-01-01T02:25:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nagging-brain-itch-need-3-singer-ids-from-song-lyrics/479431/1 "2009-01-01T02:25:02Z")

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OK, I have three songs that I taped off the radio years ago, that weren’t back- or front-announced, so I don’t know who performed them. They’re very good, IMHO, and of the country or alt-country persuasion.

I haven’t been able to find them from a lyrics search. In order to be cool with copyright, I’m only going to include the first line or two and coupe from the chorus

Help me, Straight Dope; you’re my only hope.

1. A group, along the Poco/Flying Burrito Brothers/Pure Prairie League vein

2. Single guy, country edging-toward-bluegrass timbre, about a lady who has not treated him well

3. Another single guy, with a strong high country voice, complaining about the state of modern country music. No real chorus, but the last bit is the key thought

Thanks for looking  
Hometownboy

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**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nagging-brain-itch-need-3-singer-ids-from-song-lyrics/479431/2 "2009-01-01T17:33:41Z")

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