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When she was a middle-schooler in Arkansas, Sarah Slaton would stay up all night downloading music, then burn mix CDs to hand out to her friends. "For me, listening to music was so cathartic," she recalls. At seventeen, she dug out her sisters guitar from the back of a closet and taught herself how to play. In the years that followed, she performed a few gigs and dropped a couple of songs on MySpace, but she was just getting her feet wet. In 2004, Slaton went to Missouri State University, whe...