Country Music Hall of Fame

He is dropping the "Lone Stars" from his name because he doesn't want to be associated with what country music means today. Singer Dale Watson is playing at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Lafayette Brew Co., 622 Main St., Lafayette, with a sound inspired by Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. "Watson plays traditional honky-tonk, the type of country that was around in the late '50s and early '60s, when it was more purely connected to the roots of country music," Richard Fudge, promoter from Friends of Bob, wrote in an e-mail. Dale Watson, who used to be called Dale Watson and His Lone Stars, is developing a new genre of music with his friends called amripolitan. Watson said he's using it as a clean slate because no preconceived notions are attached. He wants amripolitan to mean original music with roots.

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