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WORKING MAN’S BLUES

There’s a new furrowed-brow earnestness now emerging in American rock ’n’ roll, a grainy neorealism that depicts workaday lives in ways that were once the exclusive province of country music, a neorealism which is attempting to chart the widening gap between what we’d hoped for (romantically, socially, economically) and what we’re currently experiencing.

April 1, 1983
Mitchell Cohen

WORKING MAN’S BLUES

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