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The Jayhawks: Smile (Columbia)

Tom Cox, The Guardian, 5 May 2000

"THESE SONGS ACT like country-tinged rock and roll with an intellectual attitude and shit-kicking ambiance, but they're smarter than they act... they aren't as simple as they seem at first glance."

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