Danica has gone country ... thanks to boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Published Sep. 14, 2014 9:20 a.m. ET

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Jared Turner

When NASCAR drivers Danica Patrick and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. revealed prior to the 2013 Sprint Cup season that they were in a dating relationship, the happy couple was asked about some of their differences.

Among the most notable ones: Musical preferences.

Stenhouse, a cowboy-hat, cowboy boots-wearing son of Mississippi, has long been a huge fan of traditional country music.

Patrick, who hails from Roscoe, Ill., said she was a fan of more "modern country."

Whatever the exact differences are in musical tastes, the lovebirds are apparently on the same page when it comes to country music legend Garth Brooks.

Patrick and Stenhouse both posted pictures to their personal Twitter accounts this past week of them together at a Garth concert on Sept. 11 (Garth's country entertainer wife, Trisha Yearwood, was there, too).

This, of course, isn't Danica's first foray into the world of country music.

Last December, she co-hosted the American Country Awards with country sensation Trace Adkins. A couple months before that, Patrick and Stenhouse starred in a music video by country music rapper Colt Ford.

Like the title of a 1990s hit song by country music veteran Alan Jackson, it's safe to say that after nearly two years of sharing a residence and motorhome with Stenhouse, Danica has "Gone Country."

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