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Lads of the Canyon: Maplewood at the Knitting Factory, New York

Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, 8 April 2003

ONCE UPON a time not so long ago the musical sub-genre variously known as alt-country / y'allternative / No Depression / cosmic country / cosmic American music was born (mostly in the Far West), and its practitioners were demigods who stalked the earth with a fusion of twang and psychedelic feedback in their wake.

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