A great American storyteller is also a great dirty joke teller. Willie is a wise man with a sense of humor. (October 2002)

CMT is playing the video for Bruce Springstein’s excellent Lonesome Day, while MTV is playing Faith Hill’s Cry (or is it Hurl?). Is it a sign of the apocalypse when a New Jersey rocker has better country music credibility than half of the blasphemously crowned “New George and Tammy” ? ? Welcome to bizarro music.

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