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Nicole Atkins Embraces Her Mistakes In New Song 'Listen Up'

In a song about forgiving yourself and keeping good company, the Nashville-by-way-of-Asbury Park singer's timeless voice gets what she calls a "soul-meets-Fraggle-Rock treatment."
Nicole Atkins' new album, <em>Goodnight Rhonda Lee</em>, comes out July 21.

Maybe you know the feeling: You screw up somehow — get embarrassingly tongue-tied in a meeting, trip over your feet in front of someone important, send the wrong text at the wrong time — and your brain won't stop replaying the memory. Instead of laughing.)

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