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    Guy Clark Play

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    Guy Clark (born 1941) is a country songwriter and performer. He was born in Monahans, Texas and his early musical influences were the Spanish music and songs he heard in West Texas. He is married to songwriter and artist, Susanna Clark.

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    Blaze Foley Play

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    Blaze Foley (born 1949 in Malvern, Arkansas; died 1 February 1989 in Austin, Texas) was an American singer-songwriter. In the late 1970s Blaze Foley & the Beaver Valley Boys were a big part of the Houston club scene.

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    Steve Earle Play

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    Steve Earle (born Stephen Fain Earle on January 17, 1955, in San Antonio, Texas) is a singer-songwriter best known for his country music and rock 'n roll tinged "alt-country.

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    John Prine Play

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    John Prine (born October 10, 1946 in Maywood, Illinois) is an American country/folk singer-songwriter who has achieved widespread critical (and some commercial) success since the early 1970s.

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    Kris Kristofferson Play

    1,559,761 plays (209,903 listeners)

    Kris Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an actor as well as one of the most influential singer/songwriters in country music. He is best known for hits like 'Me and Bobby McGee' and 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down', and his association with the late Johnny Cash.

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    Justin Townes Earle Play

    1,242,019 plays (92,661 listeners)

    Justin Townes Earle, born January 4, 1982 in Nashville, TN, is an American alt-country singer-songwriter who walks the line between old-time country and modern acoustic Indie music by breathing new life into early country, blues and gospel forms.

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    Gram Parsons Play

    1,536,647 plays (130,098 listeners)

    Gram Parsons (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist born Ingram Cecil Connor, III. A solo artist as well as a member of the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, he is best known for a series of recordings which anticipate the country rock of the 1970s and the alt-country movement that began in the 80s.

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    Gillian Welch Play

    3,439,227 plays (230,639 listeners)

    Gillian Howard Welch (born October 2, 1967 in New York City) is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Welch's musical style combines elements of bluegrass, neotraditional country, Americana, old time string band music, and folk into a rustic style that she dubs "American Primitive". Her music is often described as haunting or soothing.

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    Hank Williams Play

    4,640,509 plays (444,679 listeners)

    Hank Williams (Hiram King Williams, Mount Olive West, Alabama, September 17, 1923 – Oak Hill, West Virginia, January 1, 1953), was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as one of the most important country music artists of all time.

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    The Flying Burrito Brothers Play

    1,357,268 plays (151,489 listeners)

    The band best known as the "Flying Burrito Brothers" actually 'borrowed' their name from the original "Flying Burrito Brothers", composed of bassist Ian Dunlop and drummer Mickey Gauvin, bandmates of Parsons from the Boston-based International Submarine Band, plus any of a loose coalition of musicians, including Parsons himself from time to time.

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