RE: Clip: The state of country radio

[Jon Weisberger]

> But isn't the history of country music more or less the history of its
> influences? And  that being the case, doesn't that make the influences,
> and genres within the influences, very valid -- even crucial -- factors in
> assessing the music? It seems as if you're throwing all rock music into
> the same bag. And rock is a lot more diverse than country.

Well, yeah, I am, but I'm also throwing pop, blues, r&b and everything else
into that same bag <g>.  No, really, as far as the history of country music
goes, I think it would be more accurate to say that it's the history of how
those influences were incorporated, not the history of the influences
themselves.  Plus which, the biggest influence, so to speak, is the past
practice of country music itself.  Or at least it used to be <g>.

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