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Songs We Love: The Secret Sisters, 'Tennessee River Runs Low'

Alabama's humid sense of wonder runs through The Secret Sisters' third album, You Don't Own Me Anymore. Visual folk artists Butch Anthony and John Henry Toney appear in the duo's new video.
The Secret Sisters' new album, <em>You Don't Own Me Anymore,</em> comes out June 9.

People who've never visited the state of Alabama often don't believe it could cast a spell. To many Northerners and coastal types, and even folks from elsewhere in the South, this state deep in the region represents troubling histories and a present that hasn't caught up with the rest of

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