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There are few signs that the image of Americana formed from post war influence has lasted the course and remain as part of the collective aura of today; few idols in music have stayed the course from a period when Apple Pie and Picket Fences were more than just a staple of cliché and the formulaic, and those that have are often unwilling to divert away from the feelgood sessions that made their name and to continue to bask in the glow of the light of what made the genre so alluring, so enthralling in a world recovering from despair, the haunted masques of misery.