Urban Cowboy Essentials

Urban Cowboy Essentials

In the ’70s, John Travolta’s swinging hips helped bring disco into the suburban mainstream. In 1980, with the release of the movie Urban Cowboy, those hips did the same for country, leading viewers on a two-stepping tour of all the loving, fighting, and dancing that went down at the Texas honky-tonk Gilley’s, a country venue the size of a football field. The film ushered in an era of tight grooves and irresistible pop melodies. The sound had faded by the mid-’80s, but as long as these songs are playing, the spirit of Gilley’s lives on.

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