I think that definitely nowadays it's very hard to categorize any particular "genre", cause as you've discovered sounding industry people, even they can't agree...

In my case, for instance, I listen now a lot to "new country" simply because it sounds a lot like the pop music that I like with country instrumentation... I'm talking about people like Faith Hill, shania twain, etc... But to a lot of people that's not country at all, and I certainly don't know what qualifies are real country... But when I go to the record store, i find these people in the country bin...

Another genre that I'm more familiar with is jazz... There's a lot of people over the last 20 years that get put in the jazz section of the store, when they're truly not jazz, just pop people with jazz chords in their tunes... Michael Franks is the best example of this..

If it's instrumental, and they're not "jazzy" enough, they get thrown in the "new age" section... There's a duo called Strunz & Farah that are very latin, more world music kind of thing, they get thrown into the "new age" section...

So, I think, that due to the enormous amount of "diversity" in music we've gotten over the last 20 years, it's getting very hard to know what's what, and depending on your background, one may feel that a certain tune is one genre, where somebody else will say it's not...

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[This message has been edited by Paul Radelat (edited 08-25-2003).]

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