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| | Southern Rock returns, sort of. - By Ethan Hauser - Slate Magazine |
 | | Like all labels, "Southern Rock" can be ghettoizing and silly—there's no such thing as "Northern Rock" or "Midwestern Rock." Yet, like most labels, it's an efficient shorthand, in this case for an unadorned guitar-based rock with a little bluesy swagger, written and played by Southerners. |
 | | He attempts to widen the contours of a conventional rock song, cutting the fences circumscribed by hummable, melodic guitars and foot-tapping drums and bass—all the while still preserving a classic enough sound so that a listener never feels alienated or lost. |
 | | For all of the band's protests at being called Southerners, they are engaged in the same sort of boundary-stretching as two of their brethren, albeit in very different fields: William Faulkner and Samuel Mockbee. |
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