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KentuckyWoman

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11. He provoked all the way to the end.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Tue Dec 7, 2021, 11:22 PM

Dec 2021

I certainly knew what his message was. I had the idea most did. I was not a big fan of his at the time but did feel he voiced the ideas me and mine came from. Not in all his music, but some.

He is not the only one in the country music world that is far more than the image people choose to have of country music or rural people period.

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