
I can't remember exactly how I learned to love classic country music. It wasn't from my central Wisconsin upbringing. My parent's record collection consisted of Barbara Streisand and Johnny Mathis and that's it. Seriously. And I cannot for the life of me remember if there was a country music radio station on air in the late 70s/early 80s in Oshkosh. If there was one, I sure wasn't listening to it. I was in the college class of 1995, and in the early 90s on campus in the Chicago area it was grunge, Pavement, and the dregs of hair metal. [...]