‘His ache is real’: Bob Dylan and more on the wild genius of honky-tonk hellraiser Gary Stewart

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Worshipped by everyone from Willie Nelson to Joe Strummer, the country star with the amazing voice imploded in a blaze of guns, knives, drugs and infidelities. What’s behind his astonishing posthumous rediscovery? ‘He sings like a man arguing with destiny.

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