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Trent Willmon - Broken In - Album Review
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Trent Willmon - Broken In - Album Review
Fri. March 21, 2008
In a perfect world, an honest singing cowboy would have to choose between the stage and the steed, the honky-tonk and the ropin’ pen. There would be time enough for both, with every rodeo championship win celebrated with a triumphant return to the Grand Ole Opry stage… And all of this would be possible without ever having to leave the Lone Star State, where everyone knows that real BBQ means brisket and pork is something you only really eat around Easter time.
No wait… that is a Texan’s perfect world. Or rather, the perfect world Trent Willmon probably fantasized about over a cold sympathy beer the day he had to sell his last horse. Not because of hard times so much as lack of enough time to ride. “I had to sell him about three months ago, because I’d come in off the road and want to go rope, and he’d be out of shape,” rues Willmon. “I figure the next one I buy, I’m going in partners with somebody who can keep the horse tuned up, so that when I want to come in and play cowboy, I can. But honestly, I haven’t had any time in the last six to eight months to do any kind of riding. I miss it, but this is just what I gotta focus on right now so I can get to play later.”
Given that the “this” Willmon speaks of is a burgeoning country music career that has already taken him from the dancehalls of Texas to the hallowed Opry stage and countless other venues across the country… including the National Finals Rodeo… chances are he is not doing too much crying in his beers these days. Deep in his heart he still dreams of the day when he can buy a good piece of the beautiful Texas hill country and ride till the proverbial (or rather, literal) cows come home, but he is having too much fun chasing his other dream in the here and now to waste time with regrets.
Read more: http://magazine.angrycountry.com/article.php?story=20080317032427166
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