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Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post

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?
I had one from 1988 when we went to a guest ranch. I forgot why, but I tried it on again sometime in my 20s, and was saddened to see that my head had grown and it no longer fit. Like it wasn't even close. Didn't think my head got a lot bigger from age 16 to adulthood, but apparently it had.

Sad!