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Something Easy

Something Easy is the tenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge, released May 19, 2023, on Encore Records. Rutledge noted that as he is now a father to two young boys, the album was marked by a very different creative process than his past work, as the increased demands on his time have made it much harder to set aside time for writing and recording music. It was also his first fully self-produced album, marked in part by his efforts to learn some of the technical aspects of recording that he had not fully mastered working with co-producers in the past, as well as taking guitar lessons to refine his established self-taught guitar technique. The process ultimately took him two full years. According to Rutledge, "a song like 'Cowards', for example, is a song that was a series of fuck-ups until I didn't fuck up anymore."

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Something Easy is the tenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge, released May 19, 2023, on Encore Records. Rutledge noted that as he is now a father to two young boys, the album was marked by a very different creative process than his past work, as the increased demands on his time have made it much harder to set aside time for writing and recording music. It was also his first fully self-produced album, marked in part by his efforts to learn some of the technical aspects of recording that he had not fully mastered working with co-producers in the past, as well as taking guitar lessons to refine his established self-taught guitar technique. The process ultimately took him two full years. According to Rutledge, "a song like 'Cowards', for example, is a song that was a series of fuck-ups until I didn't fuck up anymore."

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  1. release date: 2023-05-19 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
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  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

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