jazzboCR Wrote:This genre has been bought and totally taken over by corporate interests. If you want music that genuinely represents the feelings of rural America, look at the "Americana" category--this stuff is bullshit pop with a twang and nothing more...unless you think so little of rural people as to think this is what their legitimate concerns are. I don't.

Music Head Wrote:what do you mean by "what their legitimate concerns are"?

jazzboCR Wrote:While not presuming to speak for any in rural America, I can't believe it's only drinking and pickup trucks. Those folks are increasingly marginalized (look at the dearth of family farms and how few young'uns want to stay rural to work corporate farms or run stores when Walmart comes in to crush you); rural wages/income and opportunities have slipped as badly or worse than city locales; drug addiction to such as "hillbilly heroin" is near-rampant; increasingly bought-out and thus weakened safety standards for miners; increasing air/water/ground pollution; increasingly in thrall to Monsanto, etc. for the necessaries to farm profitably (seeds/ fertilizer, etc.)--those kind of things. Not that these were ever addressed in music but they sure are concerns of today. One bright note is the growth of alternate musics like Americana and bluegrass.

Music Head Wrote:got it
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