Honoring Connie Smith: 45 RPM at Douglas Corner, Nashville
Holly Gleason, No Depression, 7 November 2012
FOR THOSE WHO believe real country music has fled Nashville, the recent CMA Awards would do little to ease your notion. Bombast, smoke, lasers and lots of the arena rock are the anti-thesis of steel-soaked, fiddle-laced songs built on melody, submerged in big emotions and turned with hooks that can't be forgotten.
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