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The mighty rivers of the world are the life blood of humanity, without trade and transport far in land, the sound of a thousand voices carrying distinctive tunes and songs filled with endless possibilities would be lost to us. The Mersey brings the sound of Liverpool to the rest of the world just as it bought the music from America that started a long tradition of inspiration the other way. The same could be said of the Mississippi, the long straddling, winding river that took Huckleberry Finn on his adventures; you would be forgiven though if the sound of the deep-south suddenly had an Irish inflection as Rusty Jacks releases their new album Holler ‘N’ Howl.