Semi-country Bon Jovi is totally irresistible

Any lingering concerns that Bon Jovi has gone Nashville were put to rest Tuesday night in front of 18,000 deliriously happy fans at the Xcel Energy Center.

The first of a two-night stand at the X to promote the band's country record, "Lost Highway," the splashy, high-energy show was just as much a country concert as, say, an evening with Kenny Chesney or Rascal Flatts. Which is to say, it wasn't really that country at all.

Sure, they had a violin/fiddle player on stage and, yeah, there was a bit of twang here and there. But then again, Jon Bon Jovi first claimed he was a steel-horse riding cowboy all the way back in 1986. The sing-along choruses and bumper-sticker sentiment of mainstream country fit the Bon Jovi formula so well because, really, there's not much difference between the two.

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