country music

When it comes to crazed antics, the musicians who usually grab all the headlines are rock stars, what with Keith Moon driving a car into a swimming pool and Jim Morrison flashing his manhood before a packed house. But if any musicians deserve credit for wanton destruction, gratuitous boozing and repeated incarceration, it’s the ones filed under “country.” Country musicians have engaged in antics just as depraved as those of their rock-star brethren, and did so decades earlier. They drank, snorted and destroyed everything in sight, and still had the presence of mind to shave the next morning and get to ...