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“Another good idea/I saved the messages you sent the night you tried to sleep with her/Happy new year,” Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson — a.k.a. the Irish singer-songwriter CMAT — coos at the outset of “Tree Six Foive,” a barn-dance kiss-off from her third album Euro-Country. It offers a neat encapsulation of …

If you assembled a focus group of today’s country artists and asked them to list their biggest influences, a few names would probably rise to the top: Johnny Cash and Hank Williams; Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn. More contemporary icons like Shania Twain and George Strait would come up, and …