Weird year for country music.
Too much death, as we remember Hall of Famers George Jones, Cowboy Jack Clement, Gordon Stoker and Jim Foglesong, massive hit-maker Jack Greene and other significant musical contributors.
And too much dissension. Big country stars including Zac Brown, Jake Owen, Gary Allan and Toby Keith have openly criticized the direction of the genre, harping on a preponderance of goofy songs about pickup truck romance and such.
Entertainment Weekly ran a piece called “How country music went crazy: A comprehensive timeline of the genre’s identity crisis,” and a Boston Globe writer surmised that we have hit a “bro-country critical mass.”
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Peter Cooper On Music: Country music’s new rules
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