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Article: Nashville Bluegrass Band; Twenty Year Blues
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
- Article date:
- July 28, 2004
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To country music's outlaw souls -- derided for their dedication to self-destruction, their disruptive musical tendencies, their inability to kowtow to the hit-makers ranks -- it means the same thing Washington, D.C., means to a Southwestern politician. To Japanese tourists, flocking to the Station Inn and Ernest Tubb's record shop, it's the cradle of American musical populism. To the five members of the Bluegrass Band that bears its name, it's a wellspring of freelance work and couched inspiration: Nashville may not always be purty, but it's home.
So, if you haven't heard 'em before, you'll likely be refreshingly surprised when you hear the Nashville Bluegrass Band's ...