Country band

Forty Mile Road

Dale farms on one side of the county; Ruth, now his wife, grew up forty miles off on the other. The band is the two families' pickup musicians — Ruth's brother on drums, Dale's cousin on bass — who first played together at Dale and Ruth's wedding, in a barn, because the hired band cancelled. The forty miles between his town and hers was the whole courtship: a winter of driving it in a truck with no heat. Their music exists because two towns became one family over a two-lane road, and the band is the family staying

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