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This week's question is from Davide who asked…
Hey Kix,
My name is Davide, but I go by Dave in English-speaking countries. I tune in to your show every single week all the way from Vicenza, Italy – I’m a big fan of country music, one of the very few here, and I really enjoy to slow down a bit and relax to some great country hits.
My question is: How do you think country music will change in the next few years, and will it be able to survive the growing infiltration of other genres such as pop, rock and hip-hop?
Again, congrats on the great show! Rock on, man!
Signed,
Davide
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Kix's Response:
Well, thanks for listening way over there in Vicenza, Italy! My sister has a home in Panacali, right on the Tuscan border in Umbria – love your country.
Now, my take on your question is this – Country music is booming. Acts like Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean and Eric Church are selling out stadiums like we’ve never seen before.
Country music has, and I believe always will, survive change. I got to Nashville back in the early 80’s and people were asking the same question then and Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton and "Islands in the Stream" were a long way from what the Carters and Ernest Tubb had done, but the young country music fans have different influences than those acts did and when young artists start creating music, you're just going to hear stuff in the songs that they write that doesn’t sound like what it did before. I think it’s just a natural evolution, and if enough people don’t like it, chances are you won’t be hearing it anymore and that’s pretty much how the big wheel turns.
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