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BREAKING — Rolling Stone Music reports that Kentucky songwriter Ian Noe has ended his silence with a new album, Canyon Falls Trailer Band, a project he has described as "Appalachia Sgt. Pepper." The record arrives after a prolonged absence following what the outlet frames as one of the most celebrated releases in contemporary roots music. Noe's return, and his ambitious self-assessment, signals an artist willing to test the weight of his own mythology against a landscape that has shifted in his years away.
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