re: Did Garth Brooks Rip Country Music's Soul Out?

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Even before that, you had people like Merle and Buck Owens doing the Bakersfield stuff to go against the Countrypolitan sound coming out of Nashville.

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.....and then they corrupted Buck by making him host of Hee Haw....but his stuff certainly was different at the time as was Merle, who was not always embraced by the Country establishment