Ok, I always like music and my parents were into Country so that's what I grew up on until I was able to get my hands on my own radio, so I have an appreciation, or I've been deep seeded brain washed and never have totally been deprogrammed even with all the R&R I've consumed. We all know for several years Country music has been getting further and further away from what anyone would recognize as Country music. Now you have Jessica Simpson singing Country on the Grand Ole Opry, Darius Rucker has a solo Country album out with a #1 song, what the hell is going on and is it too late, is the genre gone forever? On the internet and HD radio you can catch some "Classic Country" stations but regular FM Country seems to shy away from what they are supposed to be. Did Country evolve into another kind of commercial genre that replaced real Country. I hate to put anyone down but the fact that a commercial hype machine can sell this slop, who are the brainless zombies who buy it? I mean it's like any has been or no talent name can dorn a cowboy hat and become a Country star. Man, if I was GQ, I'd head down there myself, yee-hah.

I don't know, maybe Country is behind. When I think of all the off shoots of basic Rock-n-Roll from Pop, to Metal, to Punk, Grunge, Alternative etc. I'm sure some one has said, "that's not R&R". This sort of happened when Grunge broke so big, all the sudden on the radio that's all there was, gone was all the "Big Hair Metal" I was so enjoying at the time. I was digging the Nirvana and Pearl Jam but I had to retreat into the album collection for some serious hits of what I thought was "regular Rock".

Anyway if you can make any coherency out of this stream of thought just chime in.