*I love your pic by the way! And I thought John Denver was dead? Wasn't he considered more easy listening than country?

its hard to determine if some "country" music is "pop" these days. yeah i kinda agree.

I agree. All this Japanese country music is giving me the blues.

Yes I would agree with that statement. It would seem that throughout the 70's and part of the 80's country music was more in line with what you would hear on hee haw. It had more twang and was less flashy than it is now. But i will say that country music has gotten more mainstream. I think it's always been about the stories. Now country is more rock than twnag. More flash. It used to be a bunch of middle-aged guys sitting around singing about how their cow died, or their pick-up trucks were repossessed and so on and so forth. Now they have those flash titles like "how can I run to you when Im chasin' round a broken heart"....I know I know it's a bit corny but it was the best I could come up with sitting here typing. Iwill say this. I am a 40-something male and have heard and seen the changes in country music. It has crossed the lines and in addition has blurred the lines between rock pop and country. Interesting how that has come about. Country is now the new rock. No one listens to rock anymore or at least pays attention because everything has been done before in rock. If I see one more rock singer in a dress im going to scream. Stories. Country has the stories and the passion.

I agree. They took the "west" out of Country and now they're working on the country part. It's inevitable though, at least in the U.S.A., music genres come and then they go.

I don't know but I wouldn't trust much of anything he said because I think his music was pure shit (No disrespect him being dead and all. He seemed like a nice guy).

I agree.