Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.
I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.
Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.
I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.
Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
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