Article: Rustbelt Rustics; Blanche's Motown Country

BLANCHE'S If We Can't Trust the Doctors...is probably the greatest alt-country album ever to come out of Detroit. This work possesses the air of something built to last and resonate deeply in the hearts and minds of the genre's hardcore - and with people indifferent to alt-country who have a weakness for songs tinged with bittersweet ache.

Said ache has its roots in tragic losses suffered by Blanche front-folk (and married couple) Dan John Miller (guitar, vocals, fiddle) and Tracee Mae Miller (bass, vocals). Dan's painter/musician brother Michael and Tracee's father passed away during the making of Doctors. Blanche turned the rancid lemons life handed them into tasty lemonade, which ...

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