Mind Your Own Business

In many ways, Country has come full circle over the 20-some years since the mid-‘60s, when the music's evolving popularity spread out into the mainstream. Make no mistake, things are different — lone stars no more, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson are now a supergroup with its own brand-name “Highwaymen” anthem. But, after a long journey to the top of the Pop charts, the music is returning to its old stomping grounds, as wildman David Allen Coe and “Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile” revive the image of a road-tested roustabout, and artists like Holly Dunn (“Daddy's Hands”) and Lee Greenwood (“God Bless the U.S.A.”) embrace core values of family, God and home — and set the stage for the new Country artists to come.