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Whose Alt.Country Is It Anyway?

Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997

THEY CALL it Alternative Country, a generous umbrella of a category that makes room for acts as different as Steve Earle, Son Volt and Slobberbone; for Palace and Lambchop, Lucinda Williams and Iris Dement, Amy Rigby and Amy Allison.

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