Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time

@pwoodard922 My wife and I saw Erich Church, then 2 days later Dave Matthews in Tahoe last summer, same venue, Harvey's.

Erich Church: Sound was really good, clear, not too loud. I saw multiple guys doing mobile sound checks all over the place.

The concert rocked from start to finish, the people were awesome - vibe was super upbeat, polite, friendly, safe. No one wasn't dancing. We had a blast.

Dave Matthew: The SQ was terrible. Too loud, too much distortion. He took way to much time between songs, so each song was a restart in terms of keeping the audience's attention. The vibe wasn't as fun and I'll leave it at that. 

We went in expecting Dave to be better / more fun than Eric. 

Just sayin'

Never owned a pickup, maybe that is why I never developed a taste for old country? I don't hate rap even though I am between 50 and 70. I like new country. It sounds like old soft rock with some twang added. Never felt a need to jump on the net and tell everyone what I don't like, except politicians. Man of Constant Sorrow (Union Station band) is Folk/Bluegrass fusion, as distinct from old country as new country is.

Merle Haggard. If you don't feel this, you have no soul. 

Colter Wall

I’m in my seventies and do like quality music in every genre including Rap, Country, Classical, Rock n Roll, R&B, Bluegrass, Jazz, and all the rest. That’s a great quality I picked up from my Mom who grew up in the Swing era and played Classical piano, listened to the Dick Clark show daily, and generally liked almost all music, good bad, and indifferent. She passed away at age 95, and I love the memory of her playing music from the "Phantom of the Opera" Broadway show on the piano up until her eighties, struggling with Boogie-Woogie style piano playing when I was a kid, and always asking me to play a favorite Santana song on the stereo when she visited. We could all stand to learn something from her.

Being an old fart who generically doesn’t like Rap is just as lame as those same  oldsters who thought Rock n Roll was some sort of unlistenable menace in the fifties. The more things change the more they remain the same it seems.

Mike