Adulterated Honey, Now This........

[Dubhe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LALgWz0xc0


Almost makes up for the honey (but not the melamine).

[papa bear]

i enjoyed that. just like Jeff Foxworthy says "There's rednecks everywhere"

[swamprat]

thems be strange rooking banjos they got there

[Galaxy]

Our music and movies are one our biggest exports.

Two years ago I was talking with a French train ticket agent in Dijon France and it turned out that his favorite music is bluegrass. He knew all the great bluegrass stars.

In the 1980s I was driving through the former Yugoslavia (in a Yugo of course) and I could always pick up a radio station that played only American country music.

And then there is the German country group "Texas Lightning" (http://texaslightning.net/index.php?area=info_A&language=e) Incredibly they were the German representative in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest (http://www.eurovision.tv/english/index.htm) To understand this you must understand that the Eurovision Song Contest is the biggest television event of the year in Europe, (except maybe football's Euro Cup (soccer)).



Germans voted for the country band Texas Lightning to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest (http://www.eurovision.tv/english/index.htm) on Saturday. 39 European countries (including Israel) participate. The contest will take place in Athens. Some 300 million people watch it (incl. online) and millions cast their votes nationally by phone. Announcing the votes takes ages and is a comical must-see. Texas Lightning's song "No No Never" about never leaving a partner has been in top of the German charts and is better than most of Germany's previous Eurovision Song Contest contributions.

This should give some food for thought to those who think that Germans dislike cowboys, country music and Texas.
The band is based in Hamburg in the North of Germany.
http://atlanticreview.org/archives/301-Germany-Sends-Country-Band-to-Eurovision-Song-Contest.html

Here is some of their music.
http://texaslightning.net/index.php?area=songs&language=e

[btr568]

right snappy,I liked it