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\n\tFrom Jeff Foxworthy and his \u201cYou might be a redneck\u201d shtick all the way back to Ray Stevens<\/a> and his parody songs, rural comedians \u2014 dare we call them, \u201cblue collar comics\u201d \u2014\u00a0have a long association with country music. But few are as in tune with the genre as Dusty Slay<\/a>. The Alabama native has a wry, lived-in perspective on country music and the lifestyles that, right or wrong, are often associated with it: Slay spent more than a little time living in trailer parks and he knows a pop song masquerading as country when he hears one. (He kicked up a fuss online when he deemed Post Malone\u2019s country album F-1 Trillion<\/a><\/em> anything but.)<\/p>\n \n\tBut it\u2019s the bespectacled comic\u2019s knack for breaking down country songs that\u2019s helped make him a favorite in Nashville, where he\u2019s called home since 2014. In one of his signature bits, Slay deep dives into Darrell Scott\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s a Great Day to Be Alive,\u201d a 2000 hit for Travis Tritt, and questions the validity of any \u201cgreat day\u201d that begins with eating microwaved rice.<\/p>\n \n\tIn his new Netflix special Wet Heat<\/em>, streaming now, he dissects another country classic, Brooks & Dunn\u2019s 1993 anthem \u201cHard Workin\u2019 Man.\u201d (He thinks he knows exactly where the narrator\u2019s money is going.)<\/p>\n