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The Civil Wars: Academy 2, Manchester

Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 21 March 2012

THE SOARAWAY SUCCESS of The Civil Wars is little less than phenomenal. Barely three years after first meeting at a writing camp for a country band, Joy Williams's and John Paul White's debut album, Barton Hollow, has already shifted upwards of 350,000 copies in their native US, a figure largely propelled by word of mouth.

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