I’ll tell you what…Chrissie Hynde & Co. are preparing to release a country record, Break Up the Concrete, on Oct. 7. Though reports said the group was experimenting with Southern sounds, it didn’t really hit home until they became featured on CMT.com. Go there now, and you can hear an exclusive track from the album, Love’s a Mystery.

Each week, the band is releasing one MP3 from the record on a different website. Right now you can hear two more songs on their MySpace page; Boots of Chinese Plastic is the most obvious example of the band’s boot-scootin’ transition. To find out where you can grab the weekly downloads, head to ThePretenders.com.

This week LAist posted a review of a recent Pretenders performance: “Introducing the brand-new Rosalee over a chorus of shouted requests, (Hynde) says, ‘Just think, in 25 more years, this will be a classic, and you’ll be yelling for this instead of Brass In F—in’ Pocket!’”

We shall see. 

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