Papa Joe's Texas Saloon is an honest-to-God Texas roadhouse perched on the edge of an I-35 frontage road south of Waco, equal parts neon mirage and last-stand bunker for anyone who knows country music died with Merle Haggard.

It's the kind of beer joint where time doesn’t move, it settles in—and where every creak of the floorboards and swig of Lone Star feels like a dare.

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