Sweet home Detroit

Kid Rock finds a way back to his blue-collar roots

by Tom Lanham

You can take the blue-collar boy out of the Midwest, but you can’t take the Midwest out of the blue-collar boy. Detroit-bred rap-rocker Kid Rock, nee Robert Ritchie, has gradually been returning to his working-class roots, beginning with his first No. 1…

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