Maybe It Was Memphis

You know?

I got to ask you about Maybe It Was Memphis.

Mm-hmm.

That's one song that within the first few notes, you know something special's about to happen in that song.

The places are almost always fields, woods, and rivers and creeks, right? Near the county line.

Nostalgia for like Chattahoochee and fishing in the dark, like maybe it was Memphis and strawberry wine.

Rural location was kind of a proxy for lower class pride in 80s and 90s country music.

And I would argue that post-90s country music largely kept that rural pride, but over-indexed on the pride part, sacrificing authenticity and going from painting water towers to driving parent-purchased extended cabs through suburban neighborhoods while pretending to know what driving on a dirt road actually feels like.

I was a little surprised that more artists, especially the ones whose heyday is long gone and they kind of obviously don't have hired help with their social media accounts, I'm surprised more of them didn't respond in any way when I tagged them.

But a few did.

The ones I remember are Pam Tillis, who liked my post on the Maybe It Was Memphis episode, Brian White, who shared my post on the episode on his duet with Shania Twain, From This Moment On, and since you asked, my favorite piece of feedback I ever got.

And it was very early on.