The Greencards

Country music immigrants

by James M. Manheim

posted 8/1/2005

Australia is one of just a few foreign lands where American country music has truly flourished. Maybe to execute country music really well it's necessary to wholeheartedly embrace certain uniquely American forms of poor taste — unabashed sentimentality, musical instruments and styles long since written off as dated — and make something artistic of

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