Modern country sucks bigtime.
Here in the UK country is not a big seller, but many songs that were big country hits in the States are re-recorded by boybands and pop artists here and make the top 10. Even artists like Shania Twain are remixed on this side of the Atlantic to take any twang out of their songs. They are doing something similar with Keith Urban at the moment, hoping to break him on these shores.
But I think that says a lot about those songs. Take away the fiddles, the slide-guitar and you basically have a pop/rock tune. It would take more than that to take the country out of a Hank Williams song.
Give me old skool country any day.
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