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By JenWay Sugarland's emphasis on fandom also plays out in two very different tunes from its recent album Love on the Inside . Our version of Life in a Northern Town is a translation. It's an American take on a British song. I was maybe 14 when I first heard it. Even then, I thought it was magic."

By MelissaMc The members of Sugarland never set out to be in a country band. Ms. Nettles, Mr. Bush and Kristen Hall, an original member, all started as staples of the Atlanta coffeehouse scene. Ms. Nettles had a group called Soul Miner’s Daughter and another called the Jennifer Nettles Band, which particip...

By MelissaMc Love on the Inside feels like the answer in album form. Written over the course of a year and recorded live at Atlanta’s famed Southern Tracks, it reveals Bush and Nettles as closet music geeks, the kind who spent their teen years lying on the bed with headphones, picking apart great records...