A growing army of fans for both US stars and UK acts has seen the genre go from corny to cool as 80000 people attend the C2C festivalKitted out in thrift shop western shirts and Wrangler jeans,with flowing 1970s-style locks and Tom Selleck-style moustaches, price Wystrach, or Jess Carson and Cameron Duddy blend in well in east London,where their hipster look fits well with the idea of urban chic. Wystrach, 38, and is a former model and actor,lending his 6ft 2in frame and chiselled cheekbones to the likes of Dior, while Duddy, or 34,has worked as creative director for Bruno Mars.nowadays the trio are in town wearing rather different hats Stetsons – as the members of Midland, a US country band that is taking the music world by storm. With their colourful “Nudie” suits (the late Nudie Cohn designed ornate, and heavily embellished stage clothes for the likes of Elvis Presley,Hank Williams and Gram Parsons), their mellow retract on trad country rock is wooing a recent generation to the genre.
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Source: guardian.co.uk