It's easy for me to time travel to the year 1994: All I have to do is put on Clint Black’s first album, "Killin' Time." The songs on that album take me right back to high school. Instantly, I feel like I can smell campfire smoke, hear the sounds of the woods, and taste the awful Natural Light beer we used to drink. (If you can’t tell, there wasn't much to do in South Florida when I was a teenager.)
My high school soundtrack was all country music from the '70s, '80s, and '90s — not just Clint Black but Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, and Alabama, too. A lot of those '90s artists were popular or up-and-coming at the time, and I discovered them all the year I got my driver’s license ... CONTINUE READING
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