country hip-hop

i went to a nutty bar/nightclub called the high forty in the "dry" county of russelville, arkansas. the racial tension was palpable. one minute a live band would be playing "every rose has it's thorn" and 60 cowboys would be slow dancing on a huge, circular, fence in-cased dance floor straight out of coal miner's daughter. the next minute a dj would play some little john song and the cowboys would clear to the bar while black and white "thugs" alike would get jiggy with the young women. needless to say i did quite a bit of people watching...

the mid-west is a strange place..