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County Fair

Michael Calderone's Blog found this 8/22/2008 on mediamatters.org

Why "County Fair"? Longtime Springsteen fans may have caught onto our new blogs's name; it's copped from the relatively obscure, Nebraska- era song of his. (Here's a nice analysis of the tune; here are the lyrics .) After running out of "media"-based name possibilities for the blog (we're pretty sure they've all been taken by now), we just liked the idea the song conveyed of a meeting place ...