durdencommatyler wrote:What are your thoughts on Kevin Fowler?
Are you asking me?
There are a few new/current country artists that I can generally recognize. No one that I listen to regularly or would necessarily call myself a fan of. I either just listen to the country station, or I have an I-Heart-Radio station going based on Zac Brown band.
But otherwise it all kinda blends together. I can't really distinguish one from the other. Even the handful of songs I really like, probably couldn't tell you the artist's name off the top of my head.
Then you have your uber-popular throwback artists which I recognize right away (Garth, McGraw, Toby Keith, Reba, etc.). At one point I really loved Tim McGraw.
durdencommatyler wrote:Maybe there is such a thing a "Nu-Country." I don't know. But there are some great country-esque bands (HoneyHoney, Shovel & Rope, Kacey Musgraves, The Civil Wars, etc) that I fucking love. But I don't know that any of them qualify as "pure country".