This year saw an odd trend in the agritainment business: Reba McEntire-themed corn mazes.
Corn mazes are a seasonal money-maker for small farmers who market the farm along with its crops, and they’ve been around long enough that a business has sprung up around them. I suppose if you have to come up with a new image every year that looks good from a drone camera, you eventually run out of seasonal themes, and McEntire has a new lifestyle book she’s promoting, so … well, there’s probably a Reba corn maze not too far from you – a couple are in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Reba’s been around forever, so long that if you just call her Reba everybody knows who you’re talking about. She long ago went beyond her roots in country, first by going more toward mainstream pop (to be fair, so did most country musicians) and later by starring as Annie Oakley on Broadway and a version of herself on television. At this point she’s probably more famous for her eponymous sitcom, which ran from 2001 to 2007, than her music career, which started in 1976. She’s still all over the TV, most recently as a coach on “The Voice.”
This was her last No. 1 country hit, from her 2010 album “All the Women I Am.”
