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    JOAN SHELLEY

    Aug 19, 2021 3 minutes
    By Stephen Deusner

    Ginko/Electric Ursa (reissues, 2012, 2014) NO QUARTER

    7/10, 9/10

    AFTER studying environment ethics and playing in coffee shops around Athens, Georgia, Joan Shelley returned to her native Kentucky in the late 2000s and embedded herself in the Louisville music scene. She found a place among a motley assortment of players steeped in punk and post-punk but bent on reassessing the region’s old-time traditions. They held all-night jam sessions that were lively and jubilant, and they

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