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A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden

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4.2

“If Jesse Elliott were making music in Southern California, we'd surely be comparing him to Gram Parsons. If he were from below the Mason-Dixon, we'd dub him southern rock and compare him (favorably, of course) to Kings of Leon. But Elliott is a Midwesterner living in Washington, D.C., a city whose chief musical styles (hardcore and go-go, for instance) are so far off from his sound that even the m”