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We talk and write a lot about the country's heartland, how rock `n'roll seems to travel up and down the Mississippi River from N'Awlins to ChiTown getting pricked, jabbed, poked, prodded into its latest incarnations. We focus on the sources of American music making: blues, R&B, bluegrass, country, folk, gospel, and their outgrowths, some successful and others less so. What gets left behind is a whole genre of rock bands, who draw from the same sources, squat at the feet of the same traditions, and for one reason or another rarely achieve more than critical and regional notice. Our first three bands this ish--and two more the next--share a number of commonalities: they're ...

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