I wonder if he (sadly) went "stag"?? It may just be me, but that surely seems to be a "forced" smile. Still, I give him great credit for his efforts to keep both OCC and himself in a state of pertinence.
I can only weep when I think of the state of country music today. To have fallen off the shoulders of giants like Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, and Willie Nelson to the dreck they crank out now.....