Country tune, say: part of it almost certainly recalled (7)

Times Cryptic #28851 | 19 Down | 2024-02-28
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

all reversed; AIR (tune), EG (say), LA (part of Algeria reversed). I had ERITREA in for a while, and thought it parsed, but 19a and 20a put paid to that idea. EDIT see below comments, ideas about the LA being part of a tune. Seems a better explanation.

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