Otherworldly

Flipping the channels the other night, I landed on RFDTV. Calling itself rural America's most important channel, it's only use to me are its music programs. Outside of recent Branson stuff, you can catch old Porter Wagoner and Osborne Brother shows. And then there's Pop Goes The Country. In the 70's Country music singers were rarely shown on TV. Outside of Hee Haw, shows like Pop Goes were where we saw them. Now watching them again, it's hard to believe that Country music was ever like it. Anyway, I caught a show from the fall of 1975, and one of its guests was Gary Stewart. The late great Honky Tonker was coming off a #1 record, and his vocals and performance on the show now seem alien to me. Stewart never quite fit in with the Nashville ties, and on this show his honky tonk heart is in full bloom.