OK...I live here as you know and know a few of them...knew Waylon ..earthy conservative-libertarian fairly well and was at a party with LeAnn Womack..conservative.. recently..a wedding thingie for her dear cousin.
and others..you live her for 16 years and you meet some
Most performers are moderate to strong conservative.
Jason Aldean goes to my wife’s church in Williamson county...SBC.
The sub country grouping called Americana...mostly older performers like Emmy Lou, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle and Marshall Chapman and Buddy Miller etc who do country rock and progressive country and often link Austin to Nashville are usually liberals....and active...Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are Reese Witherspoon libs...not very informed
The folks at CMT and the video industry are a mixed bag. CMT is urban NY Jewish liberal much like Viacom..and they know little about Dixie or Country Music and it shows. I know a video producer who is conservative but most are liberal
GAC is better...not perfect but better.
The record label heads here come and go and some are very conservative and some like Tim DuBois are libs.
The lady who used to run BMI here is conservative and was very powerful...I think she retired.
The mid level record industry folks here are 75% women...hear me roar types.. and are often liberals..publicists and song pushers etc.
The radio station mafia is VERY CONSERVATIVE...no question on that...except Lightning 100...and yes I miss Gerry House too
Country Music is still far more right then left wing and the folks are very accessible and not stuffy or pretentious...country music fanbase is conservative
CMT is a lost cause and like MTV a negative eroding force..I sat next to about 25 of them years ago when they first got here and listened in (Broadway Brewhouse downtown)..they hate the music they push...except Chet Flippo former RS writer
...but Cyrus is more Hollywood than Country so this is sorta moot
Now that was a rant and rave. Good stuff. Viacom took over MTV, that no longer plays music videos, and recently CMT which, of course, never seems to show country music anything.
I personally don’t care, hated the music video concept all my life. Hell, that’s what the Monkees were and the Partridge Family. And of course, the #1 practioner of the “movie” concept to sell albums was Tom Parker and Elvis. Also, MTV ruined keg parties in college. You couldn’t “get lucky” talking anymore. Everyone was like a zombie staring at the TV.
Helped that Elivs was actually a decent actor and could have went farther down that route but was complacent with what he had, even at 50% gross less taxes. His life is up there with any great Shakespeare tradegy.