a round of golf toward the British Beer Company in Walpole | wowgoldo's Blog

A few seconds of Garth Brooks's "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" was all it took to draw three men still dressed in polo shirts and shorts from a round of golf toward the British Beer Company in Walpole. "I like country," said Bob McQuaid of Scituate, talking over the fervent but playful objections of his C&W-hating friends. "What do I like about country music? The reality. Th buy cheep vanguard gold ey're just songs about life."

In the end, McQuaid's friends won out, and the three headed home. McQuaid may have lost that battle cheep vanguard gold  , but folks like him and the dozen or so bar patrons who sang along and danced to the Country Mile band on that Wednesday night seem to be winning a war for mainstream acceptance of country music in the Boston area.

Na tional country-and-western acts routinely pack Gill cheap vanguard gold  ette Stadium (this year's New England Country Music Festival sold out in 15 minutes). Local and regional country bands performing around the South Shore, however, have found themselves in recent years largely relegated to VFW halls and a shrinking list of community bars.