Back in the late 1980s, I was chatting with some middle-age fans during intermission at a mainstream country concert at the Tucson Convention Center Arena. These die-hard country fans were discussing the then-new bunch of “weird” country acts, such as Dwight Yoakam, k.d. lang, Lucinda Williams and, especially, Lyle Lovett. These exasperated folks just didn’t […]
