Hold Time won't be released until Feb. 17, but listeners can hear the entire album here on NPR Music as an exclusive preview.
Remember that, for 2012, the IRS answered about 68% of calls to the agency and the average hold time grew to nearly 17 minutes.
Though it mostly features all-new songs, Hold Time includes a handful of cover tunes, including Don Gibson's "Oh Lonesome Me" and "Rave On, " made popular by Buddy Holly.
The agent was smart enough to understand, and after a 15-minute hold time (where the minutes ticked by and I wondered if I would be able to make the Allegiant Air flight that was now taking off in 35 minutes), he came back and let me know a manager had approved the changes without any fees.
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More telling, when pollsters asked Americans whether the year ahead would be a time of opportunity and expansion for their families, or a time to hold back and save for harder times ahead, 60% said it would be a time to hold back.
Yet those who see prices trading sideways said that view of the debt ceiling talks might not hold this time around, given how gold sold off in late December and early January over the fiscal cliff squabbling.
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"It's a little worrying doing so well at the World Championships because it's too long a chunk of time to hold your peak form, but it's not enough time to come down and re-train, " he explained.
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All this has been enough to put the Durban political agenda on hold for the time being.
About 18% of American workers hold part-time jobs, a proportion that has barely changed in 15 years.
But a proposed loan deal to Ninian Park could be on hold for the time being because of transfer window regulations.
On the one hand, it seems the law, at least as it relates to increases in transistor density, will continue to hold for some time.
It was standard practice for banks to put complaints on hold at the time, so it is likely that many other banks may soon suffer a similar fine.
Nevertheless, one of the easiest criticisms one can make of Apple--that it moves to bump off older models with stylish new ones as often as it can--doesn't hold up this time.
As it relates to the one strand of reconciliation that you referred to, for reasons that appear to have to do with internal political turbulence among the Taliban, those efforts have been basically put on hold for the time being.
My colleagues and I didn't have the time to hold their hands until they gained it.
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It's time to hold Washington to the same standards families and businesses hold themselves.
Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath - his third time to hold that honor.
Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath, his third time to hold that honor.
And many of them are doing all of this while trying to hold down full-time jobs.
We pick a limited number of investment ideas, that we intend to hold for a long time.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke chose a dramatic time to hold his first post-FOMC meeting press conference.
When cool enough to handle, one ear at a time, hold the corn upright on a cutting board.
And let's say property prices appreciate an average of 3% a year over the time you hold on.
If ever there was evidence that it is quite literally time to hold governments to account, this is it.
Pursuing a higher career is on hold so the spare time I do get is spent with my kids.
Mr Stanton told the inquest he eventually reached Heartlands Hospital in time to hold his baby minutes before she died.
The British and Irish governments have both made it clear they don't think now is the time to hold a border poll.
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