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CLASS IS IN SESSION

In over 20 years of rock ’n’ roll ravishment, Chris Shiflett has donned many hats. He cut his teeth on punk in No Use For A Name (and later fronted Jackson United with his brother Scott); got his skank on with Me First And The Gimme Gimmes as a bonafide ska lord; and made the leap into chart-crushing, stadium-stuffing rock with none other than the goddamn Foo Fighters. But if there’s one genre Shiflett has a particularly squishy soft spot for, it’s country.

Though he’d first dipped his toes into the yee-haw pool in 2010 with Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants (and their eponymous debut album), it was 2017’s West Coast Town that saw him cannonball in from

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