What is Country Music?

I am a huge country music fan. This blog will be dedicated to the country artists and songs of today. But more importantly, I will be presenting new country music on every blog and discussing what makes it amazing, while also giving a little background information about it. 

What makes me love country music? Every song, every lyric, every melody touches my heart. I truly feel that country music is the only music that I can relate to. Conway Twitty said, "A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it into music." Country music isn’t about money, fame, or sex. It’s about life experiences, what life teaches you, loving and losing, and the trials and tribulations that everyone experiences on a daily basis. It is truly relatable music, and there isn’t a single person on this planet that could listen to a song of the country music genre and think that it didn’t relate to their life. Country music has something for everyone.

Country music was sculpted by such artists as Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, and Loretta Lynn. The songs of these artists were based on heartache, living in the South, being dirt poor, drinking, and God. They were written in a time where working hard and loving hard were the basis of a good life. You got out of life what you put into it-the true value of American living.

Today’s country music has not deviated much from that of years ago. The artists of today often talk about those of yesterday and pay homage to the road that they have paved for them. Although the artists of today aren’t all steel and fiddles, there are a few key artists that stick to their roots. Country music is the music of America and the experiences of the people. Rip a page out of any diary and it would make a great country song.

So there’s my introduction for this blog. Each week will be a different artist or song with a different reason as to why you should take a listen. Country music is passion. And I’m passionate about country music. 

“If life stayed the way it was

 and lovers never fell out of love

 if memories didn’t last so long

 if nobody did nobody wrong

 if we knew what we had before it was gone

 if every road led back home

 this would be  the very last country song”

                                                             -Sugarland