{"id":7551,"date":"2016-04-02T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2016-03-28T13:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:05:25","slug":"all-i-heard-was-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/04\/02\/all-i-heard-was-country\/","title":{"rendered":"All I Heard Was Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had left at 4 pm two Tuesdays ago. My fianc\u00e9 \u00a0Madeleine and I were driving to Tyler, Texas from the northwest corner of Arkansas. As the sun began to set, our GPS directed us to exit off Highway 59 and onto Mountain Gateway Scenic Byway through the Ouchita Mountains of Eastern Oklahoma. Although it wasn’t a Friday, the wind\u00a0in our hair felt too good not to be blasting a song like Eric Paslay’s\u00a0“Friday Night”<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0“the wide open road” with one another, especially taking in a view like this one:\"\"By the time we got closer to the Texas\u00a0border, we had to stop in a tiny mountain-valley town in Southeastern Oklahoma for dinner at one of two local restaurants. We chose the Subway. And as we walked in, we were greeted by thick southern\u00a0accents and country music playing in the background – sounded like Luke Bryan. We had begun to see a theme in the music we heard walking into restaurants and coffee shops. Even before we left the Fayetteville area of Arkansas, we went\u00a0to Fayettechill<\/a>\u00a0outdoor store\/bar\/coffee, and we had heard, ironically, “Drunk on Your Love” by Brett Eldredge.<\/p>\n