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Bob Gemmell has been sending missives from the whiskey and paisley highway for a while now. Lots of songs. Maybe it's the sound of a Dodge coming over the horizon on a desert highway. Or the sound of Hank Williams and Joe Strummer clinking glasses together in a roadhouse bar under a Frederick Remington painting. We don't know what to make of these songs, but if you listen you might hear the ghost of a fellow traveller between the notes.

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