Two musicians chase a thread from Mingus to Bond to a country classic, arguing about tones, tactics, and the one chord that makes a chorus bloom. We cover The Chicks’ Cold Day In July and pull apart how arrangement choices change the story a song tells.

• what Corrections Corner fixed and why we keep it
• Aunt Viv, Kafka, and pop culture running jokes
• Mingus Ah Um, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, and Joni’s Mingus
• Jeff Beck’s lyric guitar and pedal point blues
• Skyfall highlights, plot logic, and set-piece craft
• Q fantasies, Home Alone traps, and Bond-era vibes
• The Chicks’ lineage, Joy Lynn White, Richard Leigh
• Dobro tone, Jerry Douglas, and harmony decisions
• Mixolydian flavor, flat seven tension, space in arrangements
• Silk Sonic and Aerosmith as alternate covers and B-sides

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