Growing up, I basically wrote off country music as a genre
that I would never enjoy. While I had not realized it at the time, most of the
country music I had heard was just pop music meagerly disguised with acoustic
guitars. It was not until my later years in college that I learned that there
was a whole other side to country music, quite unlike what I grew up hearing on
the radio. One of the first bands to help me realize this was Armchair Martian,
a relatively unknown punk rock band from Ft. Collins, Colorado. While they were
not a country band, the band’s vocalist, Jon Snodgrass, had a noticeable
country twang to his voice, which was something I was not accustomed to hearing
in rock music. I quickly fell in love with the band, and eagerly acquired all
of their releases. Throughout Armchair Martian’s career, they slowly began to adopt more of a country flare. In fact,
once they called it a day, Jon Snodgrass went on to form a country rock band
called Drag the River with Chad Price of the punk band ALL.
