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...sick of New Orleans,” Andrew said the next morning, standing outside the Volvo to stretch before a long day’s drive. “Let’s go to a new city!” Later, he would regret leaving so soon. But at the time, he was ready to move...
When we left the Lamar, we got back into the Volvo and onto the highway. Andrew put on the radio, moving between stations until he found the local country one. Soon, he was turning the volume way up, and he and Matt were belting out along with Keith, lowering the windows so the whole highway could hear them...
...drive, lines of flat green zip past on either side, becoming water, which becomes waves, which unfold away even faster than the green, and you feel like you just might reach that horizon, because—look—now the trucks are getting off at that exit, and Andrew is pressing down on the gas, and the Volvo is moving faster. Everything seems possible, and there is no need to worry why you are there, because, like that saying goes, there you are—and anyway, soon you’ll be gone...
...Listen,” Andrew said a few minutes later, breaking the silence. “Do you hear that?” A deep country twang rattled from an overhead speaker. It was Toby Keith’s “As Good As I Once Was”—and it was, apparently, Matt and Andrew’s absolute favorite. In the song, Keith faces a series of demanding challenges. For instance, twin sisters named Betty Sue and Bobby Jo ask him to join them in a threesome. “My body says...
...time, there were just a few things Matt and Andrew didn’t know about Toby Keith. They did not know that before he turned to music, he worked as a rodeo hand. They did not know that he once bragged that before him, “there was zero attitude in country music.” And they did not know that he was the author of the 2001 “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue.” In that song, Keith promised retribution to the terrorists responsible for the “mighty...