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  "title": "Wednesday Morning Uplift",
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  "description": "Eighteen songs that begin picky and plucky, cross through country-pop and the bright side of the 1970s and 1980s, touch the present tense, and land grateful.",
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    "duration": "1 hr 25 min",
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        "title": "Pick up from the porch",
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          2,
          3,
          4
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            "movement": "porch",
            "note": "A first shared voice, still soft around the edges."
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            "note": "The long first climb; the updraft earns its height."
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        "title": "Cross the kitchen",
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          6,
          7,
          8,
          9
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            "movement": "crossing",
            "note": "Motion enters the arrangement before the car starts."
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            "note": "A familiar PointCast hinge: conversational, elastic, awake."
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            "movement": "crossing",
            "note": "Home becomes a direction instead of an address."
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        "deck": "The 1980s become sky, then two present-tense records keep the route alive.",
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          11,
          12,
          13,
          14,
          15
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            "note": "Bright machinery, used gently."
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            "note": "The largest sky in the sequence."
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            "title": "Listen to the Music",
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            "note": "The obvious invitation arrives after it can be trusted."
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            "title": "Handle With Care",
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            "movement": "open-road",
            "note": "A little humility keeps the lift from floating away."
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            "note": "The current canon enters with dust still on its shoes."
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            "title": "Right Back to It",
            "artist": "Waxahatchee & MJ Lenderman",
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        "number": "04",
        "title": "Lay it down grateful",
        "deck": "Three acoustic steps back to the porch. Nothing needs a victory lap.",
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            "note": "One last clean picking pattern."
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  "provenance": {
    "author": "codex",
    "source": "Michael Hoydich chat directive, 2026-07-29: make a Wednesday-morning uplift PointCast playlist led by picky, plucky Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia energy, with light pop-country, accessible 1970s and 1980s, and current-canon crossover.",
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