Life After Punk: Rank and File
Cynthia Rose, NME, 29 October 1983
Rank and Files Founders Chip and Tony Kinman walked out on hardcore punk stardom to take up their "white trash influences in country music. Now theyre leading a new kind of western revolution.
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