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A fanatic's ode to rock and roll

Broadcast: Midmorning, 05/14/2010, 10:06 a.m.

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Writer Steve Almond is obsessed with music, a self-proclaimed "drooling fanatic" of rock and roll. He chronicles that obsession and it's many forms in his new memoir.

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