Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
From Lionel Richie
I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.
By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.
Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.
All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.
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