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Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, One Year Gone: What We Lost When COVID Took One of Modern Rock’s Great Songwriters

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Chris Willman Music WriterDroll. Adroit. Literary. Observational. Epigrammatic. Empathic. Finely tuned. Waggish. Harmonious.

Hilarious. Dryly devastating.These were the qualities that marked Adam Schlesinger’s songwriting. And, frankly, on a survey of what rank-and-file fans would say they prize most about rock ‘n’ roll, these would probably end up near the very bottom.

Maybe, as attributes, they’d be even closer to antonyms for the crude rush most people associate with if not love about the music.

But that’s all right: Fountains of Wayne was not for everybody, despite the wide-open accessibility of the band’s earworms. For a select few of us with a special taste for the sweet-and-sour, FoW, with Schlesinger as one of its two.

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