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Originally Posted by Cbanjo
I promise I will not start a fight over the definition of "country" and who is country and who is ... hot country
I promise....
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That's probably for the best!
Country music has minimal commercial presence over here, although I did notice Taylor Swift's album was on sale in my local supermarket's tiny CD section, so she must be breaking through here. (I'd heard of her when someone started a thread about her on the AGF a while ago.)
One of the pleasures of that lack of commerical presence (and of me being a foreigner) has been that I've been able to disover country music largely by myself, one new find leading on to the next. A huge range of music that I didn't know existed, stretching from oral tradition, to Hank Williams' blues rhythms, to the sophisticated songwriting of 60s Nashville, to country-rock. It's not a tradition I was born to, so I can just enjoy the music I like and pass on the rest.
James