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9 Johnny Horton George Hamilton IV wretched.” Schickel probably never heard the music on this CD. It might have made him consider the need for a more extreme category of excess. If I were fluent in Yiddish I might be tempted to write these notes in that marvellously expressive hybrid language. Many of the and performances by the likes of Eddy Arnold, Porter Wagoner, Hank Snow, Webb Pierce and Red Foley, to name but a few. The fact that you don’t know whether to laugh or cry is some measure of their success. Popular culture critic Richard Schickel writes in ‘Time’ magazine “Excess is always PREVIEW