Its still around. Hank III looks and sounds enough like his Grandpa to have been cloned. Merle and the Possum are out there. Even "kids" like Ryan Adams are writing new honky tonk music

Hell, you can even find good country music coming from England.

Ignore Nashville. Except for Randy Travis, Chris Ledoux, and a few others, that vein has been mined of all the good stuff.

LEJ (holding on to the past while plunging boldly into the future.)