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White Reaper is stepping up to try to be the group that put out an album called 'The World's Best American band'

When it's nearing 2020 and one of your albums is titled "The World's Best American Band," chances are people are going to ask you how you feel about the state of the once-thriving genre.

"People are always like, 'White Reaper, you're a rock band. What is the state of rock? Is rock dead?'" The Kentucky pop-rock band's singer Tony Esposito laughed as he relayed this common inquiry. "I'm like, "I don't know. It doesn't matter and I don't really care. We're just going to make White Reaper records and they're probably going to sound like what most people

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