He got his musical start in 1953 playing lead guitar in a country-and-western swing band and became a full-time professional musician in the 1960s.
Rock stars, and particularly smarmy female country-and-western acts, you can stop saying that as little kids you dreamed of playing venues like the one you're at tonight.
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The craggy Charles Bronson vaqueros, Hispanic cowboys with their fancy rodeo shirts and Stetsons, and the Tejano bands playing the mix-and-match sound of chilli: shades of country and western, mariachi, blues - even a dash of Bavaria with the accordions.
But still, the truth remains that by effectively committing career suicide, McChrystal has posed a challenge to his country - and to the Western world as a whole.
More galling still for Russian observers was the spectacle, a few days later, of Mr Clinton receiving a rapturous welcome in Bulgaria, a country where pro-western and pro-Russian groups have, until recently, been finely balanced.
In 1994, North Korea agreed to stop making plutonium, in return for which America and its allies would supply the country with fuel oil and build two Western-designed light-water nuclear reactors (since it is a bit harder to produce weapons-grade materials from such reactors than from the ones North Korea had been building).
Indeed, we cut such a swathe through Wales that if you wished to do so - and why not, for it is a lovely country - you could walk from the south-east corner to the north-western most point and find yourself on Conservative territory all the way.
Babacan said Turkey -- a country flanked by Europe and Middle East hotspots such as Syria and Iraq -- is subscribing to the western-style democracy.
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Pierre Aidenbaum, who personally welcomed the participants and encouraged their discussion of this topic - one made all the more urgent in light of the recent, destructive riots in the French capital and elsewhere in the country during the Fall of 2005 and violent manifestations of rising anti-semitism in Western Europe.
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Nearly two dozen states have adopted a form of the one-bite rule, most of them clustered in the western and south-central parts of the country.
In 1997, aged 32, she moved back to Beijing from New York, joining a steady trickle of returnees (the Chinese call them hai gui or sea-turtles): young, western-educated professionals keen to apply their new skills in their own country, and to get rich.
The advantage of Georgia is that it is seen as the most pro-Western and business-friendly country in the region.
Mr. Gaffney examined the lessons of trying to appease Islamofascists by considering the case of Turkey, where the Islamist regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to enjoy friendly relations with and accommodation from the U.S. and European democracies, even as it relentlessly works to snuff out that country's traditions of secularism, tolerance and pro-Western foreign policies.
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They are not sanctioned by Pakistan's government and fuel anti-Western sentiment in the country, reports the BBC's Shoaib Hasan in Karachi.
But the reset was based in part on two misplaced hopes: that Dmitry Medvedev, who had been lent the presidency for one term by Mr Putin in 2008, would genuinely take charge of the country, and that some in his government had sound liberalising, pro-Western instincts.
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Rabat, modern capital and historic City (Morocco): a shared heritage, on Atlantic coast in the northwest of the country, is the product of a fertile exchange between the Arabo-Muslim past and Western modernism.
The move was in response to the PM's blaming Western speculators for his country's currency crisis -- and in particular, a remark in which he said Malaysians have a perception of a Jewish conspiracy.
The 20-year-old from Queensland said she had listened to music to calm her nerves before the race -- not the pumping heavy rock favoured by many athletes but country and western.
Unrest linked to the cost of food and fuel has occurred not only in Haiti -- the poorest country in the western hemisphere's --but in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Mozambique and Senegal, according to the program.
Too often Western multinationals mistake hiring a sales-driven manager when the country market and organization requires a top leader.
Yet it would be a terrible mistake to assume that every youthful, fast-urbanising country facing economic hardship must be eager to throw off its regime and embrace Western values.
He referred to the recent fighting in Lebanon, a country which remains locked in a political power struggle between supporters of the Western-backed government and those who support the Hezbollah-led opposition.
Making full use of the fact that it fields the most powerful army in the country and owing as well to the US's decision to abandon the pro-Western March 14 movement in favor of an approach that makes no distinction between America's friends and foes in Lebanon, Hizbullah strong-armed its way back to the driver's seat in the new Lebanese government.
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This is country where the local scrub of wild olive, thyme and holm oak give it a Spaghetti-Western feel.
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Even today, Portugal has not yet recovered its 17th-century position relative to other European economies, and it remains the poorest country in Western Europe.
Such an effort might seek to link future Western taxpayer-funded credits and aid flows to progress in curtailing in-country proliferation operations.
Angola lies on the western coast of southern Africa, a country of 18 million people living in an oil- and diamond-rich area about twice the size of Texas.
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The argument goes that politics, at least in this country, depends less on individual - glib or lofty, depending on your taste - Western-style television performances and more on structures, local branches and a collective spirit.
He says he was involved in a public relations campaign to explain to Western audiences the importance of keeping South Africa--a country rich in minerals, uranium and gold--from falling into communist hands during the Cold War.
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