Dr_Grip
Made from concentrate
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I have always believed that pickup buyers here suffer from an incurable romantic desire to be American. Secretly they want to immigrate to the Wild West and become a trapper or the next incarnation of John Wayne, thus buying an American vehicle to feel a little bit like being in Texas, instead of Lower Saxony.
There's a metric load of brilliant country&western/rockabilly bands coming out of Lower Saxony and neighboring counties for this reason:
Cliff Barnes & The Fear Of Winning
The Waltons (now Berlin-based, but originally from Borken/NRW)
Rockabilly Mafia
Dixie Gunworks (now defunct, sadly)
On top of that, i suspect that being enclosed by communists and having a wall through the city made Berliners long for the width of the prairie, and thus come up with a great country scene of their own.
Runaway Brides - Cry Babies - Ed Csupkay
To name just three.