Arkie
you bet Jerry hit it on the head. Is there a million seller country superstar today that doesn't have the same sound and 15 or so young girls dancing around to the exact same song with different lyrics from the exact same studio songwriter. And sadly I talk to the young kids (mine included) that say they love country and they have no idea who Patsy Cline was or Roy Acuff.... Yes there are some good ones I completely agree about Allison Krause and Iris Dement and some other good folks but for the most part it is all cookie cutter and almost immediately forgettable to my ears. But that is the only thing the country stations play or even the country tv ... They call it country but it is as far from country as Rap I think.

there will be very few that survive the test of time I think. I grew up with the real country music. As a teenager I hated it cause it was my DAD's music and I was cool I thought ..

Took me years to realize how smart my dad was ...