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Sat 02 Feb 2010Stand by your mam - Cork family rockin' the web
Crystal Swing are a YouTube and Twitter sensation, thanks to their exuberant versions of country classics
AT THE BEGINNING of this week, it’s doubtful if the name “Crystal Swing” meant anything to you. Astonishingly, it still may not. But that state of oblivion is unlikely to continue. On Wednesday alone, the band’s YouTube video – for Crystal Swing are a band – received more than 10,000 hits. Word of the country-and-western family band spread this week via Twitter and other networking sites. The question being most frequently asked was, quite simply: are they for real?
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