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Radney Foster: This World We Live In

[22.May.06] :. Like both Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle, Foster's music is stripped down with a southern twang that more tightly ties it to the country camp than country-rock bands like The Eagles or alt.country poster boy Ryan Adams.

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Reckless Kelly: Wicked Twisted Road

[20.May.05] :. Reckless Kelly proves to be a fine-tuned precision machine, with all parts working in tandem to produce a solid, often breathtaking, piece of alt-country beauty.

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Bruce Springsteen: Devils & Dust

[25.Apr.05] :. It is, by turns, a country record, a folk record and even a bit of a rock record. It is thick with atmosphere, awash in violence and a shadowy mythology redolent of the Old West.

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Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History by Devin McKinney

[22.Mar.05] :. McKinney sets out to re-place the greatest band in rock and roll history within the context of the volatile time in which the band exploded into the public consciousness, changing the band, its four members and everyone forever.

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Various Artists: Give 'Em the Boot IV

[14.Mar.05] :. Hit-and-miss punk compilation often chooses empty aggression over the grace and commitment of the genre's hallmarks.

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Steve Earle: The Revolution Starts... Now

[1.Sep.04] :. The release of this record two and a half months before we have to enter the voting booths should offer solace and inspiration to those ready to act.

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Joe Strummer: Streetcore

[21.Nov.03] :. Streetcore, is a tragic testament to Strummer's gifts as a songwriter and musician, a political and spiritual disc, a great rock-and-roll record that questions the state of the world and somehow simultaneously looks both forward and backward.

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