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| | village voice > music > Kid Rock's Cocky by RJ Smith |
 | | Either the music they're selling or their unforgettable getups pique the record company man's interest, and a deal is quickly assembled. |
 | | Thus goes the founding myth of how the first country music record was made, and from this flow Hank and Gram and Jimmy Dean sausages, and now, round about now, it evens leads us to one Kid Rock. |
 | | Kid's reinventing country music as Southern rock, and Southern rock as the true sound of America, and America as, well, the South imagined by a guy who grew up on the outskirts of Detroit. |
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