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Lissie Maurus is full of true rebel country spirit

Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 2 April 2010

ONE OF THE YEAR'S TRUE FINDS, Lissie Maurus maintains the flame for the true rebel country spirit with her finely-etched songs and smokey vocals. Raised in Rock Island, Illinois, right on the banks of the Mississippi, her refusal to put up with bullying from school staff once saw her dad hauled off to jail and Lissie barred for spitting at a teacher.

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