If we could put that hard sound with this rough attitude, we're bound to get some attention.

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It's an impressive showcase for his slow and rusty howl, which always did sound like a rough approximation of bluesman Charley Patton.

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It should sound familiar: it's a rough (if possibly unintentional) Windows doppelganger to FiftyThree's Paper for iPad, which itself was designed by some of the former Courier team.

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The high, plaintive wail of the pedal steel guitar and the warmly rough voice that follows close behind it define Robert Randolph's sound.

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