The Long Road Home: Brooks & Dunn Risk Backlash With a Great Rock Album
Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 1 August 2003
IN THE RURAL east Texas graveyard where my father and his parents are buried, just a stone's throw from a black church built on land donated by my father's father, I embrace my country-and-western roots. On yearly visits to the ancestral homestead, I drive long flat highways between Longview, Marshall, and Shreveport, where I temporarily shed my native Yankee persona to blend into a very different world. It's not easy.
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