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I was Country when Country wasn't cool

I was Country when Country wasn’t cool

Over a decade ago I experienced something of an epiphany. On a long drive under the endlessly wide skies of the Canadian prairie, I tired of the bland AOR from the FM stations on my hire car’s radio so I flipped over to AM and started listening to the first station I found, which was [...]

Posted on: July 4 2012 | Posted by: | Comments: 1 | Categories: English in use, Varieties of English | Tags: , , , ,

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