Best ‘It’s Complicated’ Scenario

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Rarely has a Nashville songwriting duo yielded as impressive a breakout as gold-selling, Ryman-packing folk-pop sensations The Civil Wars. But the band crashed and burned at the end of last year, going on indefinite hiatus and citing “irreconcilable differences of ambition.” Luckily the announcement came after members Joy Williams and John Paul White cut their stellar self-titled sophomore release, which boasted a fleshed-out electrified sound and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Albums Chart in August.

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