Why Britain changed its mind about country music

Why Britain changed its mind about country music

It has been a long, hot day in the desert of southern California, and the sun sets over the Indio Hills, among the palm trees and the cacti and a resplendent giant statue of a wild horse, 80,000 cowboy hats cast a silhouette as far as the eye can see. A town of tents in the Coachella Valley ring out with honky tonk, fiddles, and the opening bars of John Denver. I see “Take Me Home, Country Roads” performed about five times during the course of S…