There are some stories you want to be true even if they probably aren’t. Take for example, the first meeting between Chuck Mead, who plays the Hi-Tone cafe on Wednesday, May 27, and Gary Bennett his BR549 co-founder. Supposedly these two honky tonk enthusiasts got nice and lubricated in a Nashville bar (as such folk will) and then got into a hard fought contest to see who could sing all the words to more Johnny Horton songs. And in that instant the idea was born to start a traditional honky tonk band in a city that, with obvious exceptions, never had much use for Horton and was trying to distance itself from the twangy sounds that transformed Tennessee’s capital into Music City USA.
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