Prairie Sage

Old time country band from the song "The Night They Killed Country Music" by The Bellamy Brothers, from their 1983 album Strong Weakness. The band includes an aged singer and a dobro player, and is playing at an unnamed dive bar. The narrator of the song struggles to hear the band while loud and ignorant tourists are flocking the scene, drowning out the music.

Up there on the stage

A band called Prairie Sage

Was tryin' to keep the old ways alive

But the urbans, they wouldn't listen

Well, they bought t-shirts and went pissin' off all the locals for comin' to this dive

And I was there the night they killed country music

I was sittin' on a barstool cryin' in my beer

I was there the night they killed country music

In one evenin', they destroyed the last fifty years