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When I was in middle school, growing up in tiny Ft. Sumner, New Mexico, one of the relatively few channels we got was The Nashville Network, or TNN — long before we could access MTV or VH1. (It was channel 4.) As I got ready for school each day, I’d watch music videos. Country music videos.

Based in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Damien Willis is a newspaper reporter and communications professional. He generally writes about the ways we pass our time in the 21st century.