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Just When You Thought I Was Done With Country Music for a While
Don’t be ridiculous
It was nearly a month ago that a comment from notorious country music hater Simon Dillon caused me to take a break from including any country songs in my Rate-A-Record stories (his exact words were: “there has been far too much bloody country music in your rate a records lately”). He probably assumed he would have a calm, fiddle-free summer, especially after one recent installment included both New Order and The Smiths.
Silly Simon.
He was actually safe until my stepdad found a TV channel showing an episode of the classic show Hee Haw. The musical guest was Hank Williams, Jr., and as soon as I saw Bocephus I knew (to paraphrase Ugluk the Uruk-hai from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) country was back on the menu, boys and girls.
And not just any country. I needed country country. And who better to start with than Hank Jr.
“All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down”— Hank Williams, Jr.