Country California

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it’s, like, really relationship-y ● - - Taylor Swift offers insight on Def Leppard’s “Hysteria.”
This song is a shout out to all the country girls out there, living in small towns and big cities from Georgia to Kansas. ● - - Uh, okay, but that’s [...]

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The little guy hit me. ● - - Jerry Montano on taking a blow to the face from a drunken John Rich’s beer bottle.
And the writers that I’m writing with start playing the guitar and start humming melodies and I’ll hum along with them. And [...]

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That’s a mighty fine performance. ● - - George Jones on Patty Loveless’ cover of “She Thinks I Still Care.”
Hank Williams, Harlan Howard, Alan Jackson. Three names that mean greatness when it comes to writing country songs. Your name, Taylor Swift, can be in the [...]

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I think the [new] record has more texture. ‘Waking Up Laughing’ was pretty simple musically. It was kind of stripped down. This one has a lot of texture. ● - - Martina McBride has discovered some heretofore unknown definition of the term ’stripped down.’ [...]

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Rascal Flatts make a lot of good country music. But it wouldn’t be all that country if it wasn’t for guys like John Jeansonne. He’s the one who rosins up his bow and plays his fiddle hard during every Flatts show, and he’s been doing [...]

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Well, you can take those pebbles and stick them up your (expletive) one at a time. I won’t be there. ● - - Willie Nelson’s wry response when the director of a Pebble Beach golf tournament phoned to tell him that shorts would not be [...]

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People started screaming, clapping and chanting “Billy, Billy, Billy” when he emerged, wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots and a fleece “Hannah Montana” pullover. ● - - Nothing says raw masculinity like a fleece Hannah Montana pullover.
Is there a standards problem with showing the liquor bottle? [...]