Country music to me was always simple and straightforward, and I was turned off completely by Hank jr and Garth Brooks and all the singers who can't sing and cover it with band noise and all the identical pap that sounds the same. If someone wrote and recorded a simple song like "Amanda" or "Country Bumpkin" where would anyone get to hear it, or hear of it these days? There may be a lot of talent running around in New Country, but you sure can't tell it by the music!

O'Meara