Typecasting country artists as flipping between sounding sad and nostalgic paints a limited picture that leaves out the ever-presence of humor within the genre.
There is a special breed of person that makes their living jamming 10 forward gears into 18 wheels all day and all night so America's economy will never slow down. For the Knights of the Open Road, we salute you and the songs made famous about you.
It was 1968, dresses were getting shorter the moral code of the land was loosening and one Nashville songstress captured the moment in a song so big it spawned a TV series, a movie and a variety show.
It's a birthday, a bad day and a day to play ball in Music City. Climb in the way back machine and see what happened on this day in Country Music history.
Why do people in other countries drive like total idiots? It's because the music in other countries sucks! They don't have our great driving tunes to help them get where they need to get in the right frame of mind