![]() “People go there and they drink, but that’s not always what happens.”Īlthough drinking does figure into the song. “What happens at a bar?” asks Young rhetorically. None of them quite took the approach of Chris Young and Mitchell Tenpenny, whose new collaboration, “At the End of a Bar,” practically elevates a saloon to a church. Joe Diffie’s “Honky Tonk Attitude” depicted a club as a setting for sweaty line dancing and electric possibility David Lee Murphy’s “Party Crowd” envisioned the barroom as a place for fighting, laughing and forgetting broken hearts Randy Travis’ “Honky Tonk Moon” cast a rural pool hall as a casual dating locale and Toby Keith’s “I Love This Bar” treated a country club as a redneck version of Cheers. Given country music’s embrace of alcohol as subject matter, it’s only logical that the genre has tended to romanticize the places where it’s served. ![]()
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