Does Country Music Have a Drinking Problem?
Nashville was built on country music, and country music was built on drinking songs. Now that more people are choosing sobriety, what are we to do? Host Marie Cecile Anderson is joined by Joe Hudak, Rolling Stone senior music editor and host of the Nashville Now podcast, to discuss his recent RS article about the genre’s sober reckoning — and how the ripple effects could impact Nashville’s songwriters, music venues, and our country star-studded downtown binge-drinking tourism complex.
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