| Article: | Mixing guitars with soaps County music television has me hooked. Country is the only music to which I can understand the words anymore. No one writes ballads nowadays, and the words to rock music are harder to decipher than classical opera, which at least has the excuse of being in Italian or some other non-English language. I was reared on country music; nobody in Tennessee in the 1940s and 1950s escaped the influence of Saturday night and “clear channel” radio station WSM; Hank Williams, Jimmy Dickens, Roy Acuff, Patsy Cline and the others were all members of our families. |