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There’s country music, and then there’s having your album listening party at the flagship outpost of National Roper’s Supply. The smell of leather, emanating from rows of saddles and other horse tack, hits as soon as you walk into the Decatur shop. Any shoe but a cowboy boot is suspect. On a November evening, Randall King, a Panhandle-born, Lubbock-bred singer-songwriter, hustled around the store in custom Lucchese boots, attending to the invitation-only crowd that had assembled in this small town, forty miles northwest of Fort Worth, to hear his album Into the Neon for the first time.“If you took an old 1800s bar, dropped it into the Grand Canyon at night, and sipped a tequila old-fashioned under the stars, that’s what this record is,” King…

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