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Often enough, when major labels shelve debut albums or drop acts, it's no great cause for tears (except, of course, for the discarded artists). Chances are, they were just emulating some other act anyway. Not so with Joanna Cotten.

She's louder and funkier than a neo-traditionalist or country-pop crooner. Still, country music has flirted with R&B before, with genre-bending talents like Bobbie Gentry, Charlie Rich, Delbert McClinton and T. Graham Brown. And theoretically, Nashville is an environment in which R&B can thrive. There's a B.B. King's Blues Club here and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has been paying homage to R&B with Night Train to Nashville and Ray Charles exhibits.

Read the full article on Choir member Joanna Cotten here.

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