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Songsmith captures the anguish of troubled traders

August 21, 2007 at 8:03 am

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With a tune hauntingly familiar to devotees of the late, great Tammy Wynette, singer Merle Hazard has laid down a musical backdrop to the star-crossed summer of '07, extending the themes of country mu

With a tune hauntingly familiar to devotees of the late, great Tammy Wynette, singer Merle Hazard has laid down a musical backdrop to the star-crossed summer of '07, extending the themes of country music beyond the familiar territory of love and loss in the cornfields to eloquently capture the anguish of quant fund managers and prop desk traders in a world where asset prices no longer dance to their algorithms.