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Music Memories + Songs

Sunday, April 24, 2011

On Branson real estate

I haven't been to Branson Missouri for over 35 years, and in that time it was a small town and the only attraction beside the nearby Lake of the Ozarks was a kind of carnival, as I recall. I don't believe it had any music then, or we didn't take it in. That was before country music broke out of the confines of Nashville and became a mainstream form of commercial media entertainment. In my day, kids in the cities didn't listen to country music. It wasn't cool. Only rock and commercial stuff on the radio, but not country. So it's amazing that Branson real estate is now so valuable. As I recall, there's not a whole lot of it, at least that's level, because it is in the Ozarks so it's a hilly area.