Now I am not saying that I dislike any of these names (and frankly, I am not really saying I like them either).
Yes, yes, I know that I am in the states and I am in country and western music territory and that there may be some names that are simply reductions of or stage names (please lord, let it be so) but this era and music code certainly had parents experimenting or toying with names, didn’t it?
I mean; Buck, Hank, Clay, Doris, Conway, Webb, Harlen, Chubby, Tex, Roy, Merle and Spade, Gene, Maybelle, Jelly, Fuzzy, Dolly (Guess who?), Roger (one for my good friend Mark), Gram (really?), Emmylou, Trace and even our dear Keith, and Faron..(seriously, Faron?) ….
When confronted with these stars of the music industry, I thanked my own stars that my parents were not serious country music fans – I’m betting my children might also think they escaped a life-long chip (yet another name I didn’t see but was possibly among them) or burden to have to endure.
My dear Will, who chose this tour and likes country music always told me that the name Bonnie, our first born, came from a desire to reference his father’s homeland….
Suspicion can also be a burden or at least a niggling concern…..
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