
Originally Posted by
Sanlmar
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.