Rattlesnake Radio is a 100% country music station.
One of their announcers sounds 100% like Arnold Schwarzenegger doing the honky tonk.
It's hilarious and, if you listen long enough to wailing slide guitars, mourning about love lost, and cars gone dead, even a little bit moving.
In short, Germans love their American country music, and Rattlesnake Radion brings it to you from the Southern metropolis of Munich.
The K-landnews being a research-free blog, we surmise why they love the cowboy and western lore as much as they do.
Maybe because some of the music has rhythms that hark back to the oompa and polka tunes of brassy Oktoberfest joy. Maybe all those GIs stationed mostly in the southern half of the country for over half a century had some influence.
Or is it the longing for wide open spaces and open roads, with a sprinkle of Karl May, that formed the catalyst.
You can also learn square dancing in Stuttgart, Germany, not just Stuttgart, Arkansas.
One of interesting aspects of a cultural phenomenon living in a place removed from its complete home culture immersion is that people don't know or worry about some things.
The Dixie Chicks being blacklisted in some parts stateside when they came out against the Bush war, is unknown and irrelevant around here.
Maybe we should start a fan club for Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion.
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