Encore: The King of Tears
Revisionist History
Pushkin Industries
4.8 • 61.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Why does country music make you cry, but rock and roll doesn’t? We revisit a musical interpretation of a divided America in this episode from 2017.
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| 1:07.7 | I started listening to country music when I was about 12 or 13. This was rural Ontario in the 1970s. |
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