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The Other Country

Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, October 1992

YOU KNOW THE country boom has gone too far when stadium-busting hat acts like Garth Brooks start wearing those clamp-on microphones sported by Madonna and Michael Jackson. Thankfully we can now welcome back two of the ten-gallon boys who made country hip long before Billy Ray Cyrus ever got his horrible ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ broken so profitably.

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