Malcolm Gladwell

Anyway, halfway through, you never even called me by my name.

Coe just stops and says...

So then Goodman writes a new verse, sends it to Coe, and Coe says, okay,

Now this really is the perfect country and western song.

I think you can see where I'm going with this.

A singer insists on going back over a song, a song that has already been written, because he thinks the songwriter got it wrong the first time.

And what's the fix?

Nothing elaborate.

The most prosaic of things.

The bare essentials for a country singer.

Mama, trains, trucks, prisons, and getting drunk.

That's what I think we've learned over the first 10 years of this show.

That getting something right doesn't require heroics.

It's just following your nose and turning around when you mistakenly left someone behind.

After the break, the celebration continues.

Okay, I have some thoughts about the first 10 years of Revisionist history.

Why it has been so much fun.

Because it's been way, way more fun than I ever imagined.

For me, it starts with the difference between reading a story and hearing a story.

In reading, the writer is in charge of what appears on the page.