Somewhere along the way, AMERICA STOPPED singing about the people who actually keep it running. Alabama’s live “Forty Hour Week” at the York State Fair is a gut punch reminder of what we’ve forgotten—and who we’ve left behind. The farmers. The truckers. The teachers. The factory workers. The ones who built this country and got none of the credit. Every note in this performance feels like a thank-you we all should have said years ago. The crowd knew it—you can hear it in the way they sang every word like a promise. Miss this, and you’ll miss the last kind of country music that still honors the backbone of America.
