Daily News | ‘Fun-enough tunes. Big choruses. Nice guy.’: A Canadian journalist watches his first American country music show
, lightning, mass confusion, and, finally, a late night set that ran into the wee hours of Saturday morning.
As a Canadian living in America, the U.S. country-pop industrial apparatus has largely ground on under my radar. That said: as a native of the land that exported Shania Twain, I’m well aware that, for some time now, country music has long been pop, or mainstream radio rock, shellacked with a little twang, and decked out in a Stetson .
I suppose he’s not exactly tabloid handsome; but then country and western music’s history is riven with faces whose ruddiness stands as a measure of their authenticity.
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