The '80s were a transitional decade for country music: a time when artists could try out different styles and approaches -- and, by extension, adopt new traditions that would come to reverberate in the '90s and beyond.
The ban has been lifted for Hank Williams Jr. Could Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks the next blackballed country stars to be welcomed back into the country club?
Hank Williams Jr. will be back on Monday Night Football with a new version of the song that was used previously from 1989 thru the midway point of the 2011 season. But, he made some political comments during an interview and they yanked Hank from the telecasts...