CMT Blog: Country Music

People who aren’t into country music are pretty quick to classify it as “music for soccer moms.” As if that’s a bad thing. Like soccer moms have no taste, thereby making the music they have chosen to play in their minivans less cool than whatever alt-emo-pop music other folks are listening to. And those folks are partially right. Middle-aged suburban moms do make up a big portion of country radio listeners and are responsible for a lot of what’s left of retail CD sales. But those folks are wrong about moms not having enough smarts to recognize good music. Read more…

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