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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Mikael Wood

How country hit-maker Hardy became Nashville's nü-metal king

LOS ANGELES — Michael Hardy wanders into the bar at the Troubadour on a recent morning — last night was a long one, so he's wearing mirrored shades beneath his camo-print trucker hat — and catches sight of some heroic-looking scuzzbuckets on the wall.

"What's that say?" he asks, pointing a skull-ringed finger toward a framed flier advertising a Guns N' Roses gig at the Troubadour in the mid-1980s after one (or perhaps several) of the band's members just got out of rehab.

"'Fresh from detox,'" Hardy reads aloud. "God, that's f— awesome."

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