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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.
The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.
There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.
I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.
There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
Country music belongs to America.
Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas.
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.