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Article: TERRELL'S TUNEUP.(Pasatiempo)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2009
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Byline: STEVE TERRELL
Murder and cheating: Are the good times really over?
You can sweeten it with lush strings and horns. You can punk it up and strip it down. You can call in Hollywood golden throats or manufacture achy-breaky phony-baloney dance crazes. You can make it "alt" or "progressive" or "new traditionalist." You can mock it with sarcastic "yeee-haws" or, even worse, take it oh so seriously.
But it's hard to beat good old honky-tonk music, the kind made back before country music became so self-conscious. Though the originals are always the best, there are a couple of recent albums on which the artists honor the classic honky-tonk ...