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Swift with her Best Female Video trophy for the song
"You Belong with Me Taylor Swift 's second studio album Fearless Big Machine Records released the song to radio on April 20, 2009. Swift and Liz Rose wrote the lyrics, which discuss unrequited love. Swift and Nathan Chapman produced the track, which has a banjo -led country pop production. The song was nominated in three categories at the 2010 Grammy Awards , reached the top 10 on several charts and received certifications in Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand. The song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100RIAA certified it seven-times platinum . Roman White directed the song's music video, which stars Swift in two roles, and won Best Female Video (pictured) at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards , where Swift's acceptance was interrupted by Kanye West . Following a dispute about the ownership of Swift's back catalog , she re-recorded the song as "You Belong with Me (Taylor's Version)" for her 2021 album Fearless (Taylor's Version) Full article...
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Jean Ritchie Jean Ritchie Appalachian dulcimer . Born to a family of folk singers in Viper, Kentucky , Ritchie was the youngest of fourteen siblings. As a child, her father Balis barred his children to play the dulcimer, but Ritchie defied his injunction and began playing it in secret. Thus, by the time her father began teaching her how to play, she was already accustomed to the instrument, and he labeled her as a "natural born musician". Ritchie popularized the dulcimer by playing it on many of her albums and writing tutorials, making her ultimately responsible for its revival, and earning her the nickname "Mother of Folk". This 1950 Associated Press photograph shows Ritchie playing the Appalachian dulcimer.
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