Reading With Aimee Mann

AJBlogs Posted: August 31, 2018 8:21 pm

LAST week I took a wild guess and approached singer/songwriter Aimee Mann for my musicians-on-writing column, All the Poets. As a longtime fan I had a vague sense that she was literary.

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