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The Horse’s Ha

Because the group took its name from your Dylan Thomas’ short story The Horse’s Ha, one might assume that band was a British folk revival group with art house intentions, but Horse’s Ha comes from Chicago, IL, although there is nothing at all actually remotely Midwestern about their sound. Horse’s …

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The Zincs

Originally a solo project for displaced singer/songwriter Jim Elkington, Chicago’s the Zincs draw greatly from your multi-instrumentalist’s English homeland, mixing the wry and windswept sounds of Uk folk using the similarly despondent tones from the American Midwest. Elkington found its way to the Illinois metropolis in 2000 after stints with …

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