>>>>Pretty sure Mike is giving that list as examples of *good* country music. ( at least they'd be on my list )
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>>>>"Good" country music is a contradiction in terms. :)
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>>>Only to those who don't know it and insist on having strong opinions on any given subject.
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>>I'm with Kevin on this one. I would rather listen to static than listen to country music. I grew up with county. It was all my parents listened to.
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>>I will grant you that country artists (Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton) have the occasional cross-over hit. I once owned a Juice Newton cd. But those are pop songs by country artists. I have a hard time listening to some Greatful Dead. Just a little too much pedal steel guitar.
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>Just to show that there are many musical tastes -- not right or wrong, just different -- I love pedal steel, especially in bands like Poco and New Riders of the Purple Sage who were categorized as "country rock."

You are of course correct, there is no wright or wrong musical taste (as long as I don't have to listen to yours at 3:00 am through the apartment walls)!

As Peter Schickele used to say (copped from Duke Ellington) "If it sounds good, it is good"