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Grandmother's Country Music, Honky Tonk

Hank Williams Sr

I couldn't begin to tell you what a modern country song sounds like or who the artists would be. I scarcely remember the names of 90s country artists I heard as a child from my mother's radio, which I regularly listened to with my cousins and family.

By age 13, I had completely discarded county music. I moved from punk rock, to hardcore, to emo, to ska, to dancehall, to vaporwave, to witch house, to cloud rap, to hyperpop. You name it, but the point is, I left country music in the dust as soon as I was old enough to do that.

Recently I've been experiencing a return to my familial roots. Except it's not my mother's country that I'm here to tell you about. I want to talk about my grandmother's country music.

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Sometimes the algorithm blesses you with the digital equivalent of finding buried treasure in your backyard. This time, it wasn’t some cursed creepypasta or another YouTube conspiracy deep-dive. I’m hit with Mario Kart Contigo by LAURASAD.