Article: Let country music offer its life lessons

Pull up a stool - Country music offers some life lessons

By MALCOLM MAYHEW Knight Ridder Newspapers

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Country music is full of life lessons. Lee Ann Womack will tell you about "The Wrong Girl." Tracy Byrd has plenty of drinking tips courtesy of his barroom anthem "Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo." You say you let a good thing slip away? You need "Desperately" from George Strait.

But you don't need a lot of time to learn these lessons. About 12 hours will do it -- it did for us. Here are the songs we heard and the life lessons we learned after spending a day listening to nothing but country music (and a bunch of crummy commercials):

Lesson No. 1: Mass amounts of alcohol must ...

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