Was I Ready for the Country?

The answer: apparently not

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In the early fall of 1975 I was listening to my favorite radio station, WZZK-FM, in Birmingham. Formerly a soul station, ‘ZZK had been playing “Free Form” (non-playlist regimented) rock and roll for the past several years. Long versions of Neil Young’s “Cowgirl in the Sand,” the acid-drip sounds of Manfred Man’s Earth Band, unruly meanderings of something called The…