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* 01/22/99
The Guardian
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New Highway Return To Viva Americana
* (Boka Discs) HHHH If you want country music these days you have to go
looking for it with backpack and machete. . . or you could have it
delivered to your door by the New Highway folks, who have compiled
another treasurable compilation of American music. The 16 artists here
include classics like Billy Swan, nearly-Nashville types like Tammy
Rogers, a British expat in Chicago (Jon 'Mekons' Langford), some
Irishmen and numerous American misfits. Slobberbone play arresting
'country grunge', Missouri's Nadine are both bluesy and soulful, and
Canada's Neko Case could well be one of the voices of the millennium.
It's the antidote to Garth.
