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Adia Victoria Wrote a Hit Blues Record While Working in an Amazon Factory

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The Nashville-based “gothic blues” singer-songwriter Adia Victoria opens up about her new album “A Southern Gothic” and her rise to musical stardom.

Blues and country music have long trodden the swampy borderland between oppressed working-class sensibility and commercial populism. On one hand, the former—which rooted the tree of American music that would one day branch into the dominant genres of the 20th century: rock and roll, rap, and country—emerged directly out of...

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