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After defying the odds by initially breaking into the industry around the same time, Rissi Palmer and Miko Marks did something even more unexpected: They became friends, and next month they’ll embark on a tour together.

Country artist Miko Marks gives The Boot exclusive insight into the tracks that have become a pivotal part of her story as a singer-songwriter.

Miko Marks latest album is Our Country. Throughout her career, shes deepened her connection to her ancestors while elaborating on the possibilities of all the styles that speak to her. Beto Lopez / Courtesy of the artist In the 167 years since the Stephen Foster-penned sheet music for "Hard Times Come Again No More" went on the market, the parlor song has been done, and done, and done again, by performers of numerous generations and styles, long ago passing into the desensitizing familiar...