lasttombstone
Kinder, Gentler LTS
Does John Prine qualify as country?
Apparantly, all you have to do is a rehash of a Nirvana song and mention a dirt road for it to be modern country.......
One of my wife's closest friends was executive secretary to the president of Sony Music for like forty years. She was there before Sony bought it and knew the industry better than anyone I've ever spoken with. When Taylor Swift came on the scene she told us that the beginning of the end of country music was upon us. She liked Taylor Swift [got her autographed photo with a personal message for Zach] as a person and always noted how smart she was but knew that her and others were going to change the sound. Why you might ask? Money, money, and more money.
Lots of good stuff here...country music is very much alive. The sugar coated pop stations don't play it because of money...plain and simple.Sturgill Simpson, Whitey Morgan, Cody Jinks, Tyler Childers, Colter Wall, Whiskey Myers, Blackberry Smoke, Jamey Johnson, Chris Stapleton, Ryan Bingham, Jason Isbell, Drive-By-Truckers, Lucero, Eric Strickland, Chris Knight, Whey Jennings, Ben Nichols, Jason Eady........Just to name a few.
I do like some of the older/newer artists, Toby and Tim do have some country songs...they just don't get played.It's hard to believe that a country music fan couldn't like Tim, Kenny, Toby, etc.