You can still feel it — the electricity when Randy Owen’s flannel shirt hit the stage and the whole country leaned in. It wasn’t just another award show. It was the night Alabama lit a fire at the American Music Awards, and “Mountain Music” rolled through the crowd like thunder.
And then — 1:15 into the performance — the camera pans and there they are: Donna Summer and Lionel Richie, stomping their dress shoes in perfect rhythm, grinning like they’ve just discovered a secret.
This wasn’t just a band playing a hit.
This was country music storming the gates of pop culture, fiddle licks blazing and hearts wide open.
