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Accentuating the Positive

The career of The Hold Steady has followed the kind of slow, upward curve that seems increasingly rare these days.

Four unexceptional looking fellas staring down the barrel of middle age, they have backed gradually into the spotlight playing unfussy, four-to-the-floor rock’n’roll with a literary twist, unburdened by fads, fashion or glamour.