Mark Cline Bates on his ‘Whiskey Cup,’ songwriting & West Virginia heritage: Exclusive

West Virginia native Mark Cline Bates is a daring traditionalist, whose music is roughly-hewn masterpieces cut from an emotional cloth. He vividly writes about the life he knows, prompting him to lift straight out of his small-town sensibility and big-city dreaming.

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