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On Thursday morning, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (of all places) released the second single from its forthcoming Texas Wild, a compilation tribute album set to be released this fall. The song—like all of the songs on the record’s track list—is a cover of a Texas classic by a current Texas artist. In this case, Ryan Bingham (with backing from Dallas’s the Texas Gentlemen) takes on Toadies’s 1994 hit “Possum Kingdom.” “Possum Kingdom,” of course, refers to the Dallas-based lake of the same name, and the song—a dark, moody guitar rocker that scored the band its only Top 40 hit and propelled its debut album to Platinum certification—occupies a special role in the heart of many a Texan. But does it deserve the same “Texas…

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