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Breaux Bridge, Louisiana: In Cajun country
Norbert shuts off the small outboard and pulls the propeller out of the brackish water. He loosens the weeds which have fouled it and tosses them away. We sit in the silent stillness of Lake Martin beneath cypress trees and Tupelo gums, some of which are 300 years old. They have their roots in soil more than a metre below the still surface....
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Joe Ely: Streets of Sin (Rounder)
Ely from the flatlands of West Texas offers a triple threat: a memorable
leathery twang cured in tequila, the paraffin soul of a rocker in the clothes of
a Tex-Mex country singer, and a connection to a songwriting tradition which
includes his gifted peers Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore (of the
shortlived Flatlanders which...
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