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With a strong sense of vintage Country, Aaron Lewis has spent the last ten years committed to making the kind of Country he was raised on. Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, David Allen Coe and early Hank Williams Jr. inform the Springfield, Vermont star’s take on the genre that started with the No. 1 Billboard Country Albums debut with 2011’s Town Line. That same passion for the unseen and the unrecognized drives the guitar-playing songwriter. Having spent the last year focused on writing, often with friends he’s made over the decade he’s spent making Country music, he’s now ready to release Frayed At Both Ends. Frayed At Both Ends strips back Lewis’ sound, taking it to the bare minimum. With guitarists Tom Bukovac, Biff Watson and Seth Taylor, dobroist Ben Kitterman, acoustic slide and baritone from Sturgill Simpson veteran Laur Joamets, keyboards from Jim Moose Brown, acoustic guitar and mandolin from Dan Tyminski, some of Nashville’s best players make less do more. “There’s so much great music in Nashville, which I think everybody knows. But until you really live here, get to know people, you don’t realize how deep it runs,” Lewis says of the dozen songs on his new record. “It’s inspiring to be around people who are drawn to that same hard kind of Country, the stuff that digs down and looks at life with some of the paint knocked off it.”