Country singer-songwriter Wade Bowen recalls fondly his time playing high school football at Waco’s Bishop Louis Reicher Catholic High School. “It was one of those small schools where you play both ways on offense and defense,” he says. “I was a quarterback and a cornerback. I learned so much about being a man from it.” Was the team any good? “We had a pretty good junior year and a pretty good senior year,” he says. “We weren’t anything to write home about, but it left a lot of memories.” Those memories form the basis for Bowen’s song “Friday Night,” the music video for which is out today. The track is a mid-tempo rocker that embraces full-on nostalgia, with Bowen unfolding a narrative of small-town kids sneaking…
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