[Responsibility2nd]

When the Country Music Awards actually feature pop, hip hop and rap artists (and I use that term loosely), then you know Country Music has failed. See http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/06/09/fans-bewildered-by-lack-country-music-at-cmt-awards.html

Thank God for Outlaw Country, Americana, Red Dirt, call it what you will.

But traditional Nashville Country sucks.

[Alberta's Child]

The 1980s saw the introduction of a new quasi-genre called "Country Rock," and it brought an occasional rare gem where the music video actually enhanced the music:

Steve Earle -- Copperhead Road

I'm hard-pressed to think of a better collection of stringed instruments in one song in the last few decades.