Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
I don’t personally know any yokels who like country music.

Why do sporting events play John Denver’s “ Take Me Home, Country Roads”? It’s a song about West Virginia.

I first noticed it during St Louis Blues hockey games last season. I’m hearing it nightly during this Seattle Mariners series. I’ve heard it in all sorts of random places.

WTF & TIA
I'm one of those yokels. I picked it up when living in Riverside, CA during the early-mid '90s. Country was very popular in the US during those years, due to the popular rise of line dancing (lol). I was never into line dancing, but with 5 country music stations in the Riverside area (!!), it was everywhere, and I picked up and appreciation for it. It was then when I also discovered a lot of '80s country songs (which weren't that old yet), of which I had previously been unaware because I only listened to pop music and rock in the '80s.

You would not expect a college educated Jew from LA to become a fan of country music, but that's what happened. I continued to like new country music up through the early 2000s, but then it started to change into the bro-country type you hear today. I didn't really care for that form of country, and honestly stopped following the industry, whereas in the '90s and early '00s, I could tell you everything about the country music world. Occasionally I will hear a country music song today which is a throwback to the style of the '80s and '90s, but it's not very often.
Damn, I forgot about line dancing. It was indeed a thing. I remember going to country themed weddings. Many times there would be a DJ teaching line dancing. There was no possible way to avoid being on the dance floor. Women loved it.

I remember the struggle to figure out what to wear while maintaining some sense of personal dignity.

My wife still mentions these soirées decades later.

Even in the northeast line dancing was in the clubs.

Wounds that don’t heal.

Do you own a cowboy hat?