THE ’90S COUNTRY ERA ISN’T ENDING ALL AT ONCE — IT’S SAYING GOODBYE ONE GIANT AT A TIME
There was a time when the voices of Alan Jackson and Toby Keith seemed as permanent as the highways running through the American heartland. Their songs played from pickup trucks, kitchen radios, crowded honky-tonks, county fairs, military homecomings, family reunions, and quiet living rooms where people turned to country music because it understood the things…