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Wembley Country Festival: The Metropolitan Soap Opera

Mary Harron, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979

Friendly and polite or mean and bigoted? Even transferred to North London, the country music audience reflects the ambiguous small-town mentality. MARY HARRON heard Tammy Wynette and others reviving the clichés.

Total word count of piece: 1957

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