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[ FEATURE ] BY FRANK DE BLASE
Just ask Austin-based country singing salvation Dale Watson and he’ll tell you. “Ameripolitan,” he says. “It’s a new genre. It’s what country used to be. And that’s what you’ll hear at my show. It’s honky-tonk, western swing, rockabilly, and outlaw.” That’s what it is, but Watson is quick to tell you what it isn’t as well. It may sound classic, but it ain’t retro, Jack. Don’t confuse the two. “It may be done in an older pattern,” he says. “But it’s new songs about new things. For instance, it’s trucking songs done in a way that best translates to the trucking music world. It’s not retro, it’s new music with something new to say. I mean we talk about GPS and ambient
sensors, you know, things that are new to truck driving.” Dale Watson and his Lone Stars burst on the scene with the release of “Cheatin’ Heart Attack” in 1995. And though the man doesn’t cotton to the word “retro” — crooning with a deep, honey-tone baritone under a towering pompadour, and twangin’ guitar work — Watson dished out the kind of country music that fans used to get in abundance. Now, with over 20 records to his credit and a little more snow on the roof, Watson still reigns as one of the best county singers … ever. High praise? Just give him a spin and you’ll hear pure American music done right. Growing up outside Pasadena, Texas, country music was played at home and just about everywhere according to Watson. It got in his blood. “Where I grew up, it was just part of the atmosphere,” he says. “You go in any store or walk in anywhere … it wasn’t on a sound system but just a little radio on the counter. It was good stuff back then, you know, George Jones, and Merle Haggard, Johnny