The Backsliders

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The Backsliders are an alternative-traditional country-rock band. Chip Robinson teamed up with Steve Howell to form the band as a duo in 1991 in Athens, GA. [1] [2] The remaining members had all joined the group by 1994, and the group disbanded in 1999. They reunited in late 2012.

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