Acoustic Café: Farewell tours Part 2—Nitty Gritty Dirt Band + archives from Regina Spektor, Martin Sexton, Melissa Etheridge and more! 4%

By Rob Reinhart2%

7/26/2026, 2:55:59 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Primacy Effect, Loss Aversion, and Framing Effect, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 18.4% saturation with 72 hits. Analysis detected 227 faulty-reasoning hits from 392 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 11.5% and a BS Rank of 4% (29,360 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 96.00% of the article peer group.

On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café , our in-studio guests are the legendary Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (NGDB). 
After 60 years, the band played their farewell tour dates last month. 
This week we’re revisiting a session with founding members Jeff Hanna, John McEuen and Jimmie Fadden , plus Bob Carpenter who joined NGBD in 1979 
Also on the show, archived performances from Regina Spektor, Martin Sexton, Melissa Etheridge and the late Chris Whitley. 
See the playlist below and listen to the episodes on-demand for two weeks after it airs using the media player above. 
Acoustic Café Playlist for July 26, 2026 
“Million Dollar Intro”  Ani DiFranco 
“Like A Crime”  Lizzo 
“Destroying You”  Anjimile 
“Anyone In Love”  Jalen Ngonda 
“Poison Girl”  Chris Whitley ( Acoustic Cafe performance) 
“Camera One (solo version)”  Josh Joplin 
“Speed Of Life”  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ( Acoustic Cafe in-studio guests ) 
“The Resurrection”  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ( Acoustic Cafe in-studio guest s) 
“Field Song”  Mon Rovia 
“Northeast Regret”  Bebe Stockwell 
“Don’t Change A Thing”  Shakey Graves 
“How Far I’ve Come”  Martin Sexton ( Acoustic Cafe performance) 
“You Can Hate Me Now”  Devon Gilfillian 
“Mercy Avenue”  Hiss Golden Messenger 
“This And Not Some Other Way”  Jesse Welles 
“Generous”  Tift Merritt 
“Matches”  Melissa Etheridge ( Acoustic Cafe performance) 
“Long Haired Country Girl”  Margo Price 
“Love Is Everywhere (Beware)”  Trampled By Turtles w/Jeff Tweedy 
“Heaven’s Cry”  Satya 
“Eet”  Regina Spektor ( Acoustic Cafe performance) 
“Mr. 
Bojangles”  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ( Acoustic Cafe in-studio guests ) 
“My Walkin’ Shoes”  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ( Acoustic Cafe in-studio guests ) 
Listen to Acoustic Café with host Rob Reinhart every Sunday from 1-3 p.m. 
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The post Acoustic Café: Farewell tours Part 2—Nitty Gritty Dirt Band + archives from Regina Spektor, Martin Sexton, Melissa Etheridge and more! 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 1.2%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 1.6%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.5%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.6%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 5.1%Rob Reinhart: 1.3%WDET: 3.4%Framing Effect5.1%This article: 7.7%Rob Reinhart: 1.9%WDET: 0.7%Loss Aversion7.7%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 2.5%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.2%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 4.6%Rob Reinhart: 1.1%WDET: 3.4%Halo Effect4.6%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 3.1%Rob Reinhart: 0.8%WDET: 0.6%Recency Bias3.1%This article: 10.7%Rob Reinhart: 2.7%WDET: 0.2%Primacy Effect10.7%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 1.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 2.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 1.0%WDET: 2.8%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.3%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 1.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.2%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.4%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 4.6%Rob Reinhart: 2.3%WDET: 3.0%Biased Writer Voice4.6%This article: 3.8%Rob Reinhart: 1.0%WDET: 1.8%Indoctrination3.8%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Reinhart: 0.0%WDET: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 18.4%Rob Reinhart: 6.5%WDET: 5.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…18.4%

392 words analyzed.

Speakers

22speakers53%attributed speech185writer words
Selected voice

WDET

100%flagged-word coverage
18 attributed words8.7% of attributed speech62% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%WDET: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -38.9 ptsWriter: 38.9%WDET: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-8.1 ptsWriter: 8.1%WDET: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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