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Ladies and Gentlemen…Ms. Rachel Brooke

September 3rd 2008 in Americana, New Artists, Video, alt.country

You can keep your Carrie Underwoods, your Taylor Swifts, your Jewels and your Jessica Simpsons…I’ll take a beer and another song by Michigan’s Rachel Brooke.

Rachelle Brooke Covering Hank William’s Old Log Train

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8 comments to...
“Ladies and Gentlemen…Ms. Rachel Brooke”
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Blake Clayton

Rachel is an amazing artist. She is a diamond in the rough! Mad love for Rachel from the stalls of It Burns When I Pee


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Greg

Obviously the love child of Hank & Mother Maybelle. Thanks for this; she is great!


[...] Twang Nation unearthed a YouTube video of Rachel Brooke (MySpace) covering “Old Log Train” from Hank Williams that almost looks like it could have actually been shot during Hank’s day. Good stuff. [...]


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Chupachu

She doesn’t really look quite like a girl, and why does she sound like she’s from the south if she’s from Michigan?????

Oh, who cares? She sounds good, and it’s interesting.


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Baron Lane

Chupachu: Like Star Anna (Washington State) and Neko Case (Canada) there are ladies making great music to prove that you don’t have to be brought up in the South to tap into the feeling.


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Nate

She’s pretty much amazing.


[...] Jessica Simpsons… I’ll take a beer and another song by Michigan’s Rachel Brooke. (hat tip to Twang Nation) Here’s her cover of Hank Williams “Old Log [...]


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Jules

I heard her album with Lonesome Wyatt from Those Poor Bastards, she is amazing! Reincarnation of Patsy Cline perhaps??




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