I got a Jeff Lynne/ELO kind of vision from this. I can truly hear him doing this with that huge string section he uses.
I
love that sound! ELO gets a fair amount of rotation on my car MP3 player.
One question. Did Aberdine go to Abilene?
Yes, of course!
The name is actually a cascade of mis-rememberings, getting "Abilene, Texas" wrong, and then worrying that I'd accidentally pilfered a lyric from one of Ben Fold's songs (either "Emaline" or "Adelaide").
In the end, I liked the sound of "Aberdine" best for some reason - probably from it being in some much better country song I'd once heard but can't remember.

Thanks!