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Hayes Carll is probably the pre-eminent thinking-man's Texas musician of his generation: rowdy and rockin' enough to impress the ballcap-clad yee-hawers, but thoughtful and witty enough to impress mentors (and now co-writers) Guy Clark and Ray Wylie Hubbard. For his annual holiday show at his old stomping grounds, Carll comes armed with a new batch from KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories), the follow-up to 2008's wildly acclaimed Trouble in Mind, due on Lost Highway in February.

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