Two Small Town White Boy Country Singers, Two Very Different Reckonings

Country music is having a reckoning.  And it’s having it in the traditional sense of the word.  To reckon comes from the Old English gerecenian, which means to recount. Recount itself has at least two meanings: one, to count what has already been counted, to check for accuracy; two, to tell a story that’s been told before.  

Two recently-released songs f…