Twenty-nine years ago today, an '80s country hitmaker had an onstage accident that he never fully recovered from.

I don’t know if anyone would argue that the early part of the 1980’s was a really great time for country music, as the whole Urban Cowboy thing overran whatever was left of traditional country music.

You might not know it from his frequent appearances around our area, but country star and native Oklahoman Mel McDaniel is just now making it back. At least, that's the way he feels. The man who ...