Keith Urban's LONG HOT SUMMER

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It's a couple months too late to note this, but the one country single that's touched me this summer is Keith Urban's "Long Hot Summer." The lyrics aren't particularly evocative (or evocatively particular, either) of the yearning and anticipation the song means to convey. But the roll-along-rhythm and the laid-back but aching vocals give a sense that desire is there all right, except it's only just barely able to lift its head above the essential lassitude of the season.

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Co-written by Richard Marx, whom I used to underrate, back in the day.