Music historians continue to flesh out this region's contributions to American culture that extend beyond the twin pillars of ÓÅÃÛ´«Ã½'s previous-century honky-tonk scene.
The most recent example, screened Thursday night at the Fox, is Nate Berg's "Hwy 58: The Children of the ÓÅÃÛ´«Ã½ Sound," a fond, tilted-horizon photo album of local characters, living and dead, not named Buck Owens or Merle Haggard.
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