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...Cowboy Junkies played for a packed house last weekend at The Orpheum in Boston, one stop on their tour to promote Black Eyed Man, the band's newest album. While the nature of their mellow, bluesy music kept the show from being as exciting and invigorating as most rock concerts, they certainly created the laid-back, soothing atmosphere that fans of their recorded music would expect...
Anyone who hasn't heard the Cowboy Junkies would have a herd time imagining their mix of blues, folk, country and rock that somehow blends to create a mellow, Iyrical sound. For example, their performance of the lulling, romantic "Misguided Angel" resonated with the sweet wail of Bird's harmonica...
Even without Brooks, the country sound has upset the cosmopolitan assumptions of Los Angeles and New York City, which said drawl-and-twang music would never acquire a mass audience. Country music was, after all, the sort of rube industry that made a vamp out of the cowboy by putting him in rhinestones and that churned out corn pone-ography like TV's Hee Haw, the show where banjo pickers and celebrity fiddlers would pop out of a field to joke about henpecked husbands and lazy cousins. Worse, the last time country flashed across the national consciousness, it was propelled...
...nation's second most popular radio format, after adult contemporary. Country stations rank in first place in 45 of the top 100 radio markets, including Buffalo, Kansas City and Orlando. Without much fanfare, discos that used to play Top 40 tunes have been converting into country music clubs, where cowboy wannabes pull up in Hondas to dance the Slappin' Leather, the Tush Push or the Texas two-step...
...small screen quickly dispelled some further myths about country. "The image that people had of a country performer was Porter Wagoner -- a guy in his 60s who wears spangles and a highly tailored cowboy outfit," says Lloyd Werner, who heads sales and marketing for Group W. "But country fans discovered that country performers looked just like them." And cable executives discovered what they had already suspected -- that, in Werner's words, "a country music fan is not over 60 and does not wear bib overalls, drink Lone Star beer from a long-stemmed bottle and drive a 20-year...