Country star Tim McGraw gives a free concert at Fort Carson in Colorado in 2003. Courtesy: Budd Butcher/U.S. Air Force From Merle Haggard’s “Fightin’ Side of Me” to Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, ...

In ’55 Disney uprose, Addin’ Davy Crockett to the country’s woes . . . Thus, one weary record salesman paid tribute to the nation’s most relentlessly popular song hit, which was born last winter on TV ...