re: Define country music

I love older country music. I love the new categorized Americana. I love Texas Country music. I even love stuff that is on the radio today.

To me, country music is a state of mind, and a feel. Its not how the music sounds, but what it conveys to the listener.

If we really want to be honest, pretty much everyone's favorite country artists are in a sub-genre of the original country music that came out of the Appalachian Mountains and the southwest(hence country/western).

Luke Bryan(Bro-Country), Patsy Cline(Nashville Sound), Merle Haggard(Bakersfield), Willie Nelson(Outlaw), George Jones(Countypolitan), Dolly Parton(pop country), and Garth Brooks(country rock)are all offshoots from the original country sound.

Country music adapts and changes all the time to what the listeners want to hear.