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Songs We Love: Fletcher Tucker, 'I Became Smoke'

Tucker sinks into the redwoods and roots out something ancient and always, and this is Cold Spring's brooding, but gradually ecstatic confirmation ritual.
Fletcher Tucker's <em>Cold Spring</em> comes out June 30.

There are sections of Highway 1 where the heart can leap out of your throat and into the Pacific Ocean, the California coastline so steep, the water so far and so blue, the beauty savage and mysterious. Walk long enough

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