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Article: Ashleigh Flynn, American Dream.(Short Cuts)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
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- September 22, 2008
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ASHLEIGH FLYNN, American Dream, (Home Perm 04). How would country music sound if it were mixed gleefully with rootsy Americana and modal Appalachian harmonies by a honey-voiced lesbian songwriter who left her native Kentucky for Portland, Oregon? Darned good, if the songwriter is Ashleigh Flynn, who emphasizes the "alt" in "alt-country" in her fourth album, American Dream. The album begins in a whisper ("Dressed and Ready," starting ...