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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." \\xa0 We take a look at the contemporary historian Heather Cox-Richardson.

Martin may refer to her at Cathleen Richardson, who is hotwired in\\xa0 his brain as a great Chicago area rocker.\\xa0 Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.\\xa0

Heather Cox Richardson is an expert in nineteenth-century America, specializing in politics and economics. Her most recent book, To Make Men Free, A History of the Republican Party From 1854 To The Present, was released in 2014.

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Part Two

Paul Schneider's full review of Everydayeveryday:
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For an artist, these are truly unique times. The Covid-19 pandemic, if approached the right way, provides the artist not only new inspiration, but a new way of approaching his or her craft.

Such is the situation with Martin McCormack. After two and a half decades as one half of the duo Switchback, McCormack realized that, with the pandemic shutting down the entertainment industry and he and his partner Brian FitzGerald losing potentially 200 gigs in 2020, he had to do something else. So, picking up his guitar, he tried to write a song a day.\\xa0

The result is McCormack's first solo album, "Everydayeveryday," Fans of Switchback know that the band has a split personality - sometimes they're one of the top Celtic-American acts around, while other times a rootsy Americana group, their songs sounding like they were born from the dirt and grit of the Midwest.

"Everydayeveryday" takes the listener in a completely new direction. McCormack uses the wizardry of the studio - and little help from some talented friends - to produce a collection of 10 tunes of contemplation, introspection, hope and love. Safe to say that none of these songs would feel at home on a Switchback album. McCormack spreads his wings as a writer, alternating at times between the contemplative opening ballad, "Song for August,"\\xa0 the hopeful pseudo title track "Everyday," a couple of kids tunes, "Fear" and "Summer," and the album's closer, "Time," a six-minute meditation on, well, the everyday.

The album opens with "August," a tune about a dear relative who died far too young. Yet McCormack shows himself as

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