<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d466edf5-530a-4f5f-b73f-03188db8ab12/D8C25AD0-4107-4904-A29B-B30BFF4D5C64/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory08n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory08n.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory08n.htm"><P>YOU can take the boy out of the country, but good luck trying to take the country out of the boy - Luke Sinclair tried it himself, only to discover his Wangaratta roots were what set him and his music apart.</p> <P>A former Galen College student, Luke has been away from the North East for almost 15 years now - but even still, as he and his band The Idle Hoes are on the verge of releasing their debut album, he admits it will always be home.</p> <P>"<B>When you live in (Melbourne), you appreciate the country even more, because you’re not there anymore,</B>" he said, his voice tinged with a familiar long Aussie drawl.</p> <P>"<B>I get back as often as I can, I go a bit crazy after a few months in the city... I reckon it’ll always be like that - it’s an integral part of who I am.</B>"</p> <P>It’s also a major part of the Idle Hoes’ particular brand of music - described as somewhere between Banjo Paterson, Kris Kristofferson and, oddly enough, Kevin Bloody Wilson, the group’s lyrics are loaded with references to growing up</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D8C25AD0-4107-4904-A29B-B30BFF4D5C64/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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