Can Country Music Adapt Following Its Racial Reckoning?

Okayplayer ^ | 3/11

[Chode]

an ebullient gay Black man is at the top of C&W???

guess i been CW outa the loop longer than i thought...

[mrsmith]

The elites have waged a systemic battle against country music since it began LOL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW_YGXqQq6c
Lester Flatt “Salty Dog Blues”.

[RummyChick]

If anyone wants a laugh at two of the top Queens of the Woke brigade..this is pretty funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yonIYAfW3HM

[Rurudyne]

Homosexual acts should have always been illegal everywhere.

Never spend a penny for some guy singing passionately about some Mike’s behind rather than some guy singing passionately behind a mic.

[Vendome]

Darius Rucker

Luv him
https://youtu.be/s-vjdUg2bNk

[DIRTYSECRET]

The late Charlie Pride was pretty good. It’s like NASCAR. no interest but then they don’t have the balls.

[Eagles6]

I am so tired of this s**t!

[SkyDancer]

So C&W music is next on the hit list?

[SaxxonWoods]

Neil McCoy assures me country music will be fine.

[UB355]

I ignore it

[Myrddin]

In the 2000-2001 time frame, I listened to country music on the local radio stations in San Diego. I had a long list of favorite artists and songs. In 2002, I wrapped up the in-person engagement in San Diego and returned home to Idaho. The local AM station had good conservative line-ups including Rush Limbaugh and late night Coast to Coast AM. I ceased listening to country music. With the recent passing of Rush and my local station eclipsing the first hour of Coast to Coast with a delayed replay of "Joe Pags", I'm about ready to write them off. Their hourly Fox News feed has ceased to be even close to "conservative".

Back to the country topic...are the "woke racists" coming to destroy country music just as I'm recalibrating my options of daytime listening? If so, country music won't be getting any attention from me.

[Revel]

These people want to make make everything about racism. That is BS. Charlie Pride is a great example that if you have talent and you go for it, then it does not matter what color your skin is.

[shanover]

CW is pretty much dead of its heritage and roots.

[mrsmith]

Lester and Earl even have one for the welfare crowd...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgYN5qeG4Y

Yeah, the mail train brought a welfare check!

[SkyDancer]

Grandad pretty much said the same thing.

[Rurudyne]

NASCAR’s main problem mirrors that of our government: only Left turns.

[BenLurkin]

Is ebullient another word for diseased?

[alternatives?]

With the southern immigration growing, how is rap music going to adjust?

[Newbomb Turk]

Check out Cody Jinks for some real non Nashville Country Music. Jamey Johnson too.