Sturgill Simpson "Long White Line"
Country music. What's your response? Love it? Hate it? Not sure? We've all heard the similar response... "pretty much anything but country music". And those responses are usually followed by the same justifications: all they sing about is trucks, beer, dogs, and dirt roads, or it all sounds the same. These conclusions are interesting in a couple of ways. In one aspect, we know this is not entirely true. Of course not every instance of country music is centered around trucks and beer. However, it is intriguing that this seems to be a consistent complaint by many people, including myself! I have made the exact same remarks in the past, even though I had almost never listened to any country music other than what was on radio station and music videos I had come across here or there. So there is without a doubt some certainty to these accusations. Perhaps this is just a formula to appeal to the masses. But this complaint isn't isolated to just country music....