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Steacy Easton

Steacy Easton is a writer and artist now living in Hamilton, Ontario. They have written for Spin, the Atlantic, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and other publications. They have a volume about Tammy Wynette forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. icon

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“I don’t quite know what Murphy means by baroque or what he means by camp, but Murphy has never been able to discern tone.”

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