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Sylvie Simmons, Country Music International, 1995
His cult movie roles and haunting balladry made him a star of stage and screen. But the epitome of American Cool still doesnt know to smoke a cigarette properly and insists he doesnt like motorbikes. "Thats my rebel image gone," admits the nouveau Hank Williams.
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