The video might have helped push the song to its Number 67 Billboard Hot 100 peak and, alas, it also pushed towards dismissing Sobule as a gimmick. I mean, c’mon: Co-starring male model/romance novel ...

I was like a religious convert. I couldn’t get enough.” Hillman believes that with songs such as “Sweetheart Of The Rodeo,” Parsons “opened the floodgates” to the country-rock ...