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RadioDavidByrne: What Country is This?

With a fresh month, at the beginning of a fresh year, comes a fresh playlist on David Byrne's internet radio station. All you really need to know is that it includes If Jesus Drove A Motorhome," by Jim White (screengrab from video below). But since Mr. Byrne posts such terrific insight on the work of the artists he plays, here's a snip from his intro for January:
Many of the artists on this playlist grew up with the songs on last month’s playlist. They may have also been listening to rock, R’nB and folk, but their own writing was grounded in a music that came uniquely from that place. The “classic” country spoke of hard work, honky tonks, trains, and stuff people outside of New York and L.A. recognized as being what used to be their world. But now that world is mainly nostalgic memories.
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David Byrne Live at Union Chapel, interviews and other audio&video clips;
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"My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts"
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