It’s 11 p.m. on a late July Wednesday, and The Maverick King of Clubs is packed with twentysomethings, many of them dressed in their faux-cowboy finery: flannel shirts, Daisy Dukes and cowboy boots and hats.
A throng of young people stacks two and three deep at the bar waiting to order dollar draft beers and $3 well drinks as the DJ lights up the dance floor with chart-topping hip-hop-infused country hits from Morgan Wallen, Walker Hayes and Beyoncé.
Welcome to Wildcat Wednesdays, the one night a week that Tucson’s legendary country music nightclub invites college-age revelers to live their 21st-century version of “Urban Cowboy.”…