Ok guys, I gotta confess...

[DINGO Joe]

...I spent the past week in Branson, Missouri with my family.

Go ahead and laugh.

Is Shoji Tabuji still playing?

My Grandparents retired on Bull Shoals Lake many years ago, so I got exposed to all that plus another strange wondrous theme park in North Arkansas called Dogpatch, USA that is long abandoned.

The Andy Williams show was one of the more baffling experience of my life.  Branson is a little more tacky and definitely more hokey than most tourists traps, but it's something one should see at least once in their lifetime.  

Eureka Springs, Arkansas is another interesting locale around there--half hipster historic town/half giant Jesus statue.  

[DINGO Joe]

Branson is also typically thought of as the second capital of country music in the US (the first being Nashville obviously.)

It's not really a creative place for country music, I have no doubt that more new country music is produced in Chicago each year.  It's a place where artists that you thought had retired or were dead have their own theaters and play an ungodly number of shows.  Nostalgia to nth degree.

[DINGO Joe]

Branson is also typically thought of as the second capital of country music in the US (the first being Nashville obviously.)

What about Bakersfield, CA?

Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, nuff said.