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    Silver Jews' David Berman Remembered By His Peers, In His Own Words

    Beauty Pill's Chad Clark and Wooden Wand's James Toth examine the legacy of David Berman with their favorite lyrics.
    by Chad Clark Aug 10, 2019 2 minutes
    "If you think about it, it's almost like Dr. Seuss," Beauty Pill's Chad Clark notes about one of David Berman's lyrics, "if Dr. Seuss had become seriously depressed."

    Editor's note: David Berman could take an image, a turn of phrase or a wry couplet and make it ripple outward. When his record label Drag City announced that the frontman for Silver Jews and Purple Mountains died Wednesday at 52, fans and musicians grieved through Berman's own words, sharing lyrics or excerpts from Actual Air, his book of poetry. We asked a couple

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