The loopy blue neon letters spell out “Robert’s Western World.” Atop the sign stands an 8-foot-tall, no-nonsense brown cowboy boot; inside, the band is playing tunes from another time. Songs drift into the street: throaty, yodeled laments set to a honky-tonk shuffle that could inspire a dead man to shake a leg.
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