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		<title>Glitter and Doom&#8230; Tom Waits In Dallas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Waits at The Palladium Ballroom, Dallas 6/23/08
I don&#8217;t usually make it out to shows on Monday night. But in this case, Tom Waits (Yes, that Tom Waits)  playing his first show here in thirty years, my first ever opportunity to see him live, I think I can make an exception&#8230;
 The Palladium was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounds like old times&#8230;</title>
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Old 97s - Blame It On Gravity
 New West Records
Back in the day, when “alt country” was still an indefinable thing, something you couldn’t really nail down specifically but you always knew it when you heard it, before the corporate record music people got together and dubbed it and anything remotely like it “Americana,” The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Gaffney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slacker Country was deeply saddened to hear of Chris Gaffney&#8217;s passing on Thursday, April 17 . We didn&#8217;t even know he was undergoing chemotherapy for liver cancer.
He fronted The Hacienda Brothers and was lately a regular member of Dave Alvin&#8217;s band The Guilty Men, as well as a truly great solo performer. He combined the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stewboss - The Places We Meet (2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere between awesome and cool, Stewboss has always been about road trips, dreams, favorite songs, wanting to meet girls, meeting girls, losing girls, missing girls, and wanting to get back with girls - all while doing a really serious head bob to a wicked ass groove . . ]]></description>
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		<title>Todd Snider sings Guy Clark</title>
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So this is from Front Porch House Concerts.  I went to this show last year and I&#8217;m still thinking about it.  Especially this cover he did.  Thought I&#8217;d share it with you.
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		<title>Brighter Than Creation&#8217;s Dark - Drive-By Truckers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t heard all the raving about the newest Drive-By Truckers’ release, Brighter Than Creation&#8217;s Dark, then you haven’t been paying attention! This one’s getting lots of positive press. Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley and Shonna Tucker have written the 19 songs on this 75 minute long album, which has exceeded even my expectations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watermelon Slim Works the Room&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watermelon Slim and The Workers at Pearl, Dallas, Texas
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Watermelon Slim has got to be to be livin’ the life these days.
He’s got quite a bio, hard knocks, hard times, hard work and all the while “making sure the boss gets paid.” Now that his own dues are paid- in spades,  he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Bob Wills Were Alive Today&#8230;</title>
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The Old 97s and The Drams
New Year&#8217;s Eve at The Longhorn Ballroom, Dallas
There&#8217;s something about the Longhorn Ballroom.
Something that hits you the minute you walk through the door. The room just permeates history from every corner and crevice. It&#8217;s an awesome place, in the truest sense of the word awesome. For one thing, it&#8217;s as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slackercountry.com/2008/01/02/if-bob-wills-were-alive-today/</link>
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		<title>Leaving, Tx - Anywhere On Good Roads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know when you share someone’s musical taste, you’re gonna like the music they come up with.  So if you like Hayes Carll, Jon Dee Graham, Joe Ely, Robert Earl Keen, and those kinds of guys, Leaving, TX, is right down your alley.
In Anywhere On Good Roads, the boys from Leaving, TX have come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slackercountry.com/2007/12/19/leaving-tx-anywhere-on-good-roads/</link>
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		<title>Gracey&#8217;s Favoritest CDs in 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am still listening to Icky Thump (White Stripes) and enjoying it more each time, so maybe that’s my favorite album of 2007.  I really think Jack White brings something unexpected to the table every single time and you gotta respect that.  This whole CD is full of innovative creations of the non-typical [...]]]></description>
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