Well "pure country" is just not part of my nature, I usually like any country music act that could never get airplay in nashville,stuff like blue rodeo, lyle lovett, the cowboy junkies, Fred Eaglesmith
3-4 yrs ago I seen this guy do his album "BLAM" at a local folk fest which was some cool spoken word country "Hick Hop" but he couldn't make a go of the alternative country thing so he sold out [HTML_REMOVED] did a "trad country" album which had the commercial sucess but didn't do it for me cuz I liked his funky spoken word about women/booze/drugs … generally pretty wierd shit
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