Hudson Westbrook

713 Music Hall

August 8, 2025

With all due respect to the East Coast/West Coast hip hop beefs, Kid Rock vs. Bud Light, and Drake vs. anybody, the internal rift between country music fans can be as nasty as any of them.

And I'm not even talking about specific artists (Toby Keith and the Chicks, Zac Brown and Luke Brown/Jason Aldean, Florida-Georgia Line acrimoniously splitting up and sparing us any more of their output), but the full-on (virtual) fisticuffs between the pro- and anti-Nashville factions. Cries of "sellout" have been heard since even before Garth Brooks' stranglehold on country in the 1990s, with fans of traditional/Americana artists deriding "bro country," and vice versa.

Enter Stephenville's Hudson Westbrook. Expressing affection for the likes of George

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