re: the lives of old country singers vs. the new breed around today

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I like country because it's real music written and performed by real people who lived through the stories they tell.

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So, you're saying that Kenny Chesney does not write music? It amazes me the number of people who make this incorrect assumption. Kenny Chesney has penned thousands of songs. He began his career as a contract songwriter in Nashville.

Does nobody care if the statements they make are blatantly false?

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embarrassments to the genre such as KC

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Yeah, right.

Well, if it were not for him and some of his fellow "embarrassments," country music would not have near the following that it does today. Thank God he made it acceptable for other artists such as Dierks Bentley, Rascall Flatts, Zac Brown Band, Keith Urban, Billy Currington, Jason Aldean, and a slew of others to break out of the cookie-cutter George Strait and Merle Haggard molds and exert their own individual creativity to show that there is more to country music than wearing a white cowboy hat or being a scraggly, dirty outlaw. That schtick was getting waaayyy old.