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Strip-club rhythms to the Man in Black? Hans Frank’s take on Johnny Cash, “Folsom Prison Rhumba,” is as wicked cool as the Skynyrd sneer of “Regular.” Frank’s voice swaggers and menaces like Jim Lauderdale on a bender over the tough Telecaster of ex-Ernest Tubb guitarist Pete Mitchell. Pure rock-roots, not the other way around.
This article appears in August 1 • 2008.
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