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P.J. Harvey: 4-Track Demos

Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, 25 November 1993

THE POP INDUSTRY loves to simulate authenticity, a trick that, like the manufacturing of fake antiques, puts demands on the consumer. It's hard to tell an original (Michelle Shocked's The Texas Campfire Tapes) from a copy (the Cowboy Junkies).

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