Garth Brooks destroyed traditional country music. I was in Nashville in his earliest years.
His commercial success brought him so much money, a flood of singers and writers who were NEVER true country music singers flooded the town and erased traditional country.
Everybody in New York and LA put on boots and a cowboy hat and moved to Nashville.
It was greed. It took down the genre.
Although I could make the case that it started with Urban Cowboy.
I love country, still many great artists. Most of the good ones understand who paved the way for them.... dont see many mentioning Garth though lol.
Everybody in New York and LA put on boots and a cowboy hat and moved to Nashville.
Alan Jackson even wrote a song about it “Gone Country”.