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Eye on America; American country music has always tugged at the heartstrings. But have "cancer country" tunes--songs that use cancer to ratchet up emotion--taken emotional realism too far?(Brief article)
Byline: From Slate.com
Craig Morgan's "(I Thought That I Was) Tough" starts out praising a multitalented wife and mother. But then the cancer sneaks up on you: "We sat there five years ago/The doctors let us know, the test showed/She'd have to fight to live, I broke down and cried/She held me and said it's gonna be all right."
In the history of songs about death, dying and disease, few rival ...
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