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Throughout its glorious history, country music has spoken to, and to a large degree for, a certain group of people. Not some Hollywood-manufactured ideal of a blue collar everyman, but complex, hard-working, plain-spoken, working people who wear their hearts on their sleeves. People concerned about their families, at peace with their God and in love with their country. That’s "country" as in America and "country" as in music.

The best country artists have a direct conduit from song to heart: Hank Williams’ crushing loneliness, Merle Haggard’s poetry for the common man, Johnny Cash’s steely sense of justice. Van Zant tapped the edgy side of this approach with their Gold-certified 2005 CD Get Right With The Man, and with their new release, My Kind of Country, on Columbia Nashville, Johnny and Donnie Van Zant fully express exactly what their kind of country is. And it’s something very special.

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