Join me this week on UNCLE ED’S COUNTRY DEN, I’ll play classics from the many hat acts in country. There’s something about wearing a cowboy hat that kind of connects you with the old west and the country music spirit that I love so I wear mine when I can, and you never know who will show up.

I’ll be going back to some of the singing cowboys like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Rex Allen and Tex Ritter; and those artists from the 1989 hat act invasion, led by Garth Brooks as my Classic Country Legend; you’ll find out the most popular brand of cowboy hat; find out why Alan Jackson wore a hat; the story behind chapeaus for Brett Kissel, Dwight Yoakam, the unique hats for Waylon Jennings, along with Willie Nelson, Terri Clark, Clint Black and Bill Monroe; a double shot of occasional hat-wearer Johnny Cash in the Extra Cash track, along with a bendable hat from Trace Adkins and Brad Paisley‘s ever popular crease hat and more.

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