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	<title>Search for the Last of the Hard-core Troubadours</title>
	
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			<media:copyright>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.</media:copyright><media:thumbnail url="http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/images/hct_small_logo.jpg" /><media:keywords>country,traditional,singer,songwriter,cowboy,western,swing,americana,bluegrass,altcountry,hardcore,troubadours,hardcore,troubadours</media:keywords><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Music</media:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>webmaster@hardcore-troubadours.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>www.hardcore-troubadours.com</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author>www.hardcore-troubadours.com</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/images/hct_small_logo.jpg" /><itunes:keywords>country,traditional,singer,songwriter,cowboy,western,swing,americana,bluegrass,altcountry,hardcore,troubadours,hardcore,troubadours</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>We're two chicks, Mimi and Cricket, who live in Nashville and love country music. We've covered the scene in New York, Seattle and Montreal. Now we've come to the source, ready to bring authentic country music back to the rest of the world. &lt;strong&gt;What W</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>We're two chicks, Mimi and Cricket, who live in Nashville and love country music. We've covered the scene in New York, Seattle and Montreal. Now we've come to the source, ready to bring authentic country music back to the rest of the world. &lt;strong&gt;What We Do&lt;/strong&gt; We search out the unsigned, the under-promoted, the talented acts outside the mainstream, and write about them. So everyone can find the real country gold. Hey, No Depression's gone cross-genre. Someone's gotta step up. Here we are! We're also filling in the gaps of the country music past, reviewing and recommending a broad range of country artists from the past 100 years. We cover industry news, encourage independent bands, make podcasts of new music and local musicians, and interview bands. &lt;strong&gt;What We Cover&lt;/strong&gt; Alternative country, Americana, bluegrass, country punk, cowboy music, cowpunk, folk, indie country, insurgent country, outlaw country, progressive country, roots rock, singer-songwriter, Texas swing, traditional, Western swing, and anything else that twangs just right. There's more out there than pop-country radio would have you believe. We point the way. The indie rock scene has been exploding and alt.country is coming back in new and exciting ways. People who love music are always looking for something different and we give them a road map to music with a little twang and buzz. &lt;strong&gt;Talk To Us&lt;/strong&gt; Want to talk back? Invite us to a show? Appear in a future podcast? Wow us with your talent? &lt;a href="mailto:webmaster@hardcore-troubadours.com"&gt;Email us&lt;/a&gt;.</itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Music" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/SearchForTheLastOfTheHard-coreTroubadours" type="application/rss+xml" /><item>
		<title>rumors, news, and tours</title>
		<link>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/07/10/139</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am full of the news of big changes here at HCT.  Coming soon.  See this space.  Hmm, it could be coming even sooner if I was working on it, instead of posting here.  But I love you guys and I don&#8217;t want you to think we&#8217;ve just wandered off and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>loose strings, new beginning</title>
		<link>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/06/09/138</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we really have been falling down on the job over here at HCT HQ.  Apparently Gibson.com has decided to pick up the slack for us by presenting the least inspired list of the top 5 alt-country albums of all time.   I don&#8217;t disagree with the titles listed here, it just feels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We had a bad break up but baby I loved you the most</title>
		<link>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/06/03/136</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You read HCT regularly, you’ve been an alt-country fan for years, you have all the Wilco, Jayhawks and Whiskeytown CDs already and you still listen to them.  The double-disc re-release of Whiskeytown’s Strangers Almanac seems like a non-event to you.  Or is it? Clearly, what you want to know is whether it&#8217;s worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trial by Fire</title>
		<link>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/05/13/135</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>webmaster@hardcore-troubadours.com (www.hardcore-troubadours.com)</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/05/13/135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, hi there, this is Mimi. No, I am NOT dead. I just moved to LA. For now, you can read my mad ramblings here, but soon we&#8217;re going to have a huge shake up at HCT. More on that later, but for the time being, meet our latest addition to the wacky world of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“She has unrealistic expectation for love”</title>
		<link>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/02/14/134</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>webmaster@hardcore-troubadours.com (www.hardcore-troubadours.com)</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[a little bit rock and roll]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/02/14/134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Valentine&#8217;s Day is once again upon us, and we here at HCT headquarters had a few days there where we were undecided as to whether we would take the opportunity to be bitter single girls, sitting around the house watching Lifetime and listening to Jagged Little Pill over and over again  [This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Earle Wins a Grammy! (Hi, Mom!)</title>
		<link>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/02/11/133</link>
		<comments>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/02/11/133#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/02/11/133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit I&#8217;m ambivalent about this.  I mean, overall he deserves recognition for being such an amazing songwriter, old rocker and political guy.  Maybe he deserves one just for being married so many times.  Steve definitely deserved the 2005 Grammy he got for The Revolution Starts Now.  It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>less content, butter head</title>
		<link>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/02/08/132</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For this first bit I blame folks who send me such hilarious things first thing in the morning thus forcing me to share with anyone who will pay attention:
You know, rabid fans that you are, that before there was Lucero, there was Red 40, Ben Nichol&#8217;s punk band.  You can read a bit about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>things to go and do</title>
		<link>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/01/23/131</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/01/23/131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Say, you know what&#8217;s good news? Chris Milam has a free download, every Monday, of a brand new track, available on his MySpace page.  Go check it.  I&#8217;ll personally vouch for the goodness of the tracks.
&#8212;
Lucero tour dates:
2-21-08 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree Cafe (All Ages)
2-22-08 Orlando, FL - The Social (18+)
2-23-08 St. Petersburg, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High time for lowlifes: One more River to Drag</title>
		<link>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2008/01/22/130</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time I was much younger Cricket and I listened to punk rock and the alternative music of the day (which was more alternative than the stuff these kids today are making).  Eventually I expanded out into alt-country and, by extension of that old country, Americana and roots music.  One day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good ol’ country girl</title>
		<link>http://www.hardcore-troubadours.com/2007/11/01/129</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the very end of October and I&#8217;m sitting outside on the porch in just jeans and a tank top.  I love Tennessee.
I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about country music lately.  Given time, money and opportunity I&#8217;d think about little else, but as it stands I take the chance to dwell on it [...]]]></description>
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