We had moved to Houston from the Middle East and before that New York, so we thought all the cowboy stuff was a hoot and mostly ridiculous (we left with KC and the Sunshine band –as if that doesn’t say enough– when we went to our one and only Houston Rodeo).

I don’t get Ramon’s argument and I don’t buy it. Country was as fluffy commercial candy back then and saying that it crossed over shouldn’t be to Country’s credit since it just means that it was moving towards a more generic sound. I don’t like Merle Haggard much anyway but the bass heavy boring ass stuff he put out and Waylon and even Willie in that time is the pits.

Incidentally I went to Gilley’s a few times after it became a family attraction. Played my first Space Invaders there and went back a few years later as a YMCA Teen Counselor with a bunch of kids to ride the bulls. Boring.

I remember my mother leaving the trailer in Magnolia in her tight Chic jeans, with her red hair feathered and blue eyeshadow making her blue eyes seem like Oceans.

It seemed like a magical time, when my parents smoked inside the house, and I spent most of my time outside caring for a couple of dozen animals under the canopy of tall pines, who made midnight seem all the darker with no street lights anywhere.

I have said this before about music of that era. It reminds me of people getting away with murder.

I also remember thinking that Christopher Cross was Anne Murray.

I do wonder if I should buy some pink Ropers.

Thanks for the post! I’m off to toss salad!

You guys really all love this stuff? No revisionist history going on?

I couldn’t find anyone that wasn’t into date rape that thought that music was anything but small-minded pop trash.

In point of fact, the Urban Cowboy song has been proven to invoke senseless aggression in males under thirty that live below the Mason-Dixon line. This is indisputable.

Anne Murray? Come, come now. That has to be a fucking joke.

Living in Jersey Village in the early to mid 80s was damn near a punishment, and my memory more than serves me correctly.

I hate country from pretty much then on.

I hate your post for reminding me of it.

I hate you.

Anyhow, yeah great country station. I do wish at times they’d be a bit more adventurous and dig deeper in the catalog than just the hits but I guess that’s not the point of the station.

This post brought back many memories. Thank you.

And it’s also true that we only stopped listening to country for a little while. We eventually let it back in the house when I was 11 or 12. Just in time for me to really dig Randy Travis and George Strait. That’s when I really started listening to George Jones, too.

Isn’t this Country a close sibling to Christian music anyway?