Miko Marks Opens Hell Or High Water at the Little Bighorn
Writers working through personal upheaval often go inward and narrow. Going outward to history instead is a harder and less common move.
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Miko Marks Opens Hell Or High Water at the Little Bighorn 
Hot Club of Cowtown Answered a Village Voice Ad and Stayed Thirty Years 
Marty Stuart Made a Surf Guitar Album on Clarence White’s Telecaster 
Turnpike Troubadours Covered Robert Earl Keen With Sierra Hull