Nashville's Cheatin' Heart: Why Country Music Has Been Obsessed With Adultery for the Last Century

Country music and cheating go together like whiskey and water. Flip on any radio station—classic country, pop-country, alt-country, “truck-driving country”—and mixed in with the love songs and the hoedown stomps and the patriotic ballads, you’re bound to hear some poor soul walking the floor over the loss of his woman. Or some desperate soul pleading a temptress not to take her man.

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