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OPEN-MIC SONGBOOK ED SHEERAN AFTERGLOW

Landing in December 2020, Afterglow is Ed Sheeran’s most recent single, and was an immediate hit. 2019’s No.6 Collaborations Project was a predominantly electronic hip hop and R ‘n’ B affair, but Ed’s back on steel-string acoustic here, per-forming the kind of folky pop that first made him famous a decade ago.

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