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Article: Squares Dance: Why We're a Country Capital;Is Stuffy Ole Washington Nashville-on-the-Potomac?
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- The Washington Post
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- October 7, 1990
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I'm a member of a country club
Country music is what I love
I drive an old Ford pickup truck
I do my drinkin' from a Dixie cup
. . . I'm a member of a country club.
From "Country Club," C 1988 Triumvirate Music Inc.
IT WILL COME as news to no one that the country club these days
is enormous. It is, after all, a good deal more than music-it
touches upon one's view of life itself. Membership is not exclusive;
contrary to stereotype, the country club accepts people of all ages,
races and walks of life. And if its national headquarters is
Nashville, a good case could be made that Washington over the years
has become its most important regional outpost. These days, club
membership even ...