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A LITTLE BIT COUNTRYThanks to films like Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line, Country and Western music is enjoying a surge in popularity. Vicky Allan travels the country in search of Scotland's C&W scene and finds a world of gunslingers, cowboys, line dancers, saloon girls and a few singers too
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A WESTERN, of sorts, set out east.
Weopen on a dance floor in the hospitality centre of the Royal
Highland Show Ground, Ingliston, the only building that rustles with
anything more than imaginary tumbleweed in a darkened ghost town.
There is a momentary silence as 30 men and women file on to the
floor, some dressed in Confederate uniform, others in 19th-century
frockcoats, men with holsters strapped to their hips, women in
Victorian skirts and wide-skirted dresses fit for Eighties
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GOOD OL' COUNTRY MUSIC: ADMIT IT. YOU MISS IT
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