97. Tear-Stained Letter – Jo-El Sonnier (iPod Challenge)

When I was working in Country Radio in the late 80′s and early 90′s, I learned a lot about Country Music (both kinds, in fact; Country & Western). Up until then, all I knew was a few bars from snippets of songs from some TV Record album commercial. Seems like that collection was sold on TV about as long as Slim Whitman and Boxcar Willie records.

That time was also a period of great change in the genre. The dying gasps of “The Nashville Sound” or “Countrypolitan” were being heard as the sound w...