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last time anybody's heard a Merle Haggard or Johnny Cash or Tom T. Hall song on the radio? ".......

Hear them all the time on my tape player in my pickup truck

Well there is still Allan jackson and george Strait

Same thing happened in the early 70s when John Denevr and Olivia Newton John won countrys honors. Real Country will make another comeback like it did then when Randy Ttravis, Ricky Skaggs, Moe Bandy, George Strait, Vern Gosden , Keith Whitely then Allan Jackson hit the scene and Garth Brooks ( when he sings country that is)

Meanwhile play Jimmy, Hank, Ernest, George, Merle, Waylon, Buck, Bobby, Tom T,, George, Allan, etc on your tapes

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Same thing happened in the early 70s when John Denevr and Olivia Newton John won countrys honors. Real Country will make another comeback like it did then when Randy Ttravis, Ricky Skaggs, Moe Bandy, George Strait, Vern Gosden , Keith Whitely then Allan Jackson hit the scene and Garth Brooks ( when he sings country that is)

Randy Travis is nothing but boilerplate shlock. Garth Brooks should be beaten and deported. Ricky Skaggs, thankfully, is confining himself to what he does best, bluegrass. George Strait made some decent records in the late 80s. Vern Gosden, Keith Whitley and Allan Jackson are bubblegum crooners.

You want some real country? Check out Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Buddy and Julie Miller, Hank III, Robbie Fulks, Alejandro Escovedo, The Gourds, Uncle Tupelo (even though they broke up in '94), Lucinda Williams, etc. etc. Trouble is, unless you're in a college town, you ain't gonna hear them on the radio.

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Well there is still Allan jackson and george Strait

I don't know. To me, Allan Jackson and to a lesser extent, George Strait represent the very female-friendly, happy-go-lucky, offend no one, country music the above article is talking about. I listen to them, but they are not my favorites.