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RadioA1A LIVE Sessions, Phil Stanley Take a listen to his first two albums: "Broadside" and "Everything Causes Cancer in California," both are a raucous sonic attack brought on by the lifestyles he traipsed through in America's Music City: Nashville, TN.  "I hated that city, so I left," Phil bemoans. "Nashville just bastardized everything I was trying to do, made everything too complicated and too desperate. So I left," he continued. He says his style has always been folk music. Whether electric or not, each one of his songs is a folk song. But now he can do them on his terms, exploring the depths of his years-long traveling companion- an acoustic guitar named 'Bert.'"It had never appeared much on my previous works but now I can really dig into it. There's a tremendous depth, something brooding and heavy, like a big stone cathedral; it just seems to paint a more detailed image for my songs. It's also done wonders for my voice, I really wanted to move away from the nasal rasp of the past al