Til the Last Cowboy's Gone
I have always been a country music fan. Even when I was a baby, my mom said nothing made me happier to hear than a song with a fiddle in it. In my teenage years, I remained a country fan, but I went along with whatever was popular at the time. I went through music phases...Lynyrd Skynyrd, Johnny Cash...but I pretty well stuck to popular sounds. I think I started floating away from the norm when I watched the movie Walk the Line and realized what a repertoire Johnny Cash really had. However, my real music epiphany started when I heard the smooth buzz-saw voice of Jamey Johnson. From the first time I heard one of his albums, I fell in love with his music. Some of his songs made me laugh, some made my heart hurt. Some made me want to be in a smokey bar somewhere with an old jukebox, but one thing remained constant. All of his songs made me feel SOMETHING. Sure, they were catchy, but the poetic lyrics and his deep old timey voice made me want to keep hearing more. No matt...