[a fool in paradise]

If country music singers went back to packing guns, they might be able to thin the herd of those pretender wannabe country acts...

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/flashback-johnny-paycheck-shoots-a-man-in-barroom-brawl-241285/

[Clay Moore]

:If country music singers went back to packing guns, they might be able to thin the herd of those pretender wannabe country acts...”

Don’t forget Billy Joe Shaver.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-trials-of-billy-joe-shaver/

[T-Bone Texan]

Yours was a fun read. Thanks.

"...That’s when Paycheck — who, coincidentally enough, scored one of his earliest hits with a song called “Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone to Kill” — reached around his hip in search of his .22-caliber pistol...."

I did not know that was a song of his.