The Geezinslaws
I have it on good authority that the Geezinslaws started their set Saturday night at the Broken Spoke honky tonk with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Now I know that country music artists, with the exception, perhaps, of the Dixie Chicks, tend to be very patriotic. But this is the first time I have heard of one bringing out a flag and conducting a roomful of dancers in saying the pledge--before getting to numbers with lyrics such as "I gave her my ring, she gave me the finger." My source, who is from Fort Worth, was there after attending a crawfish boil. She said she was shocked, not by the lyrics, nor the pledge, but because the band didn't have a fiddle. Fact that it was the night before Easter, when the crowd could be expected to be small, might have had something to do with it. But she said that if a band showed up at a Fort Worth tonk without a fiddle player, they'd have to go get one in a hurry.
