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In which the gap between metal and country narrows to not much more than an AC/DC riff, though obviously it depends on which metal and which country you look at. Meanwhile, parentheses-happy young outlaw nogoodniks filter Jerry Reed through "It's Not Easy Being Green" [Jennings's "Alligator Stomp (The Ballad of Dr. Martin Luther Frog, Jr.)"] and "CB Savage" [Watson's "Truckin' Queen (I Got My Night Gown On . . . )"]. And rural adolescents channel White Stripes (Allen's "Dear Carl") and Lisa Lisa (Lindsey & Kristy's "This Boy"), while lady green-eyed-soul producer Lari White helps formerly angry American Toby Keith's Dixieland minstrel move catch up with the nostalgia for antebellum nostalgia that Dino recorded a half-century ago.

See also: "Drugs or Jesus"

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BIG DICTATOR
Big Dictator
(cdbaby.com heavy rock album)
Download "Bite The Bullet" (Windows Media)
Download "Hot Mess" (Windows Media)

BLACK SAGE
Jack's Corner
(Carpet Cat exurban desert-country album)
Download "Jack's Corner" (Windows Media)
Stream "Oleander" (Windows Media)

BUCKCHERRY
15
(Eleven Seven Music hard rock album)
Stream "So Far" (Windows Media)
Stream "Crazy Bitch" (Windows Media)

HANK DAVISON BAND
Hard Way
(Firebird German heavy biker-boogie album)
Stream "Leather Angel" (Windows Media)
Stream "Hard Way" (Windows Media)

DIXIE WITCH
Smoke & Mirrors
(Small Stone stoner-boogie album)
Stream "S.O.L." (Windows Media)
Stream "Bridges" (Windows Media)

SHOOTER JENNINGS
Electric Rodeo
(Universal Southern rock album)
Stream "Electric Rodeo" (Windows Media)
Stream "Little White Lines" (Windows Media)

TOBY KEITH
White Trash With Money
(Show Dog Nashville/Universal western-swung soul-country album)
Stream "Note To Self" (Windows Media)
Stream "Get Drunk And Be Somebody" (Windows Media)

DEAN MARTIN
Swingin' Down Yonder
(Collector's Choice/EMI '50s Dixieland-pop reissue)
Stream "Carolina Moon" (Windows Media)
Stream "Georgia On My Mind" (Windows Media)

LUCAS MCCAIN
New Horizon
(Audiobrush Southern rock album)
Download "New Horizon" (Windows Media)
Download "One Bad Love" (Windows Media)

LINDSEY & KRISTY
Lindsey & Kristy
(landersproductionz.com teenpop country EP)

DALE WATSON
Whiskey or God
(Palo Duro western-swung hard-country honky-tonk album)
Stream "Whiskey or God" (Windows Media)
Stream "My Heart Is Yours" (Windows Media)