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I don't know how old you guys are but I am 63 years old.
I grew up listening to Porter Wagoner, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, ETC.

Why do you think it is whining or complaining when I say I wish they were still doing that kind of traditional Country music.
I don't have a right to like that kind of music and want to hear it on the radio?

I don't have a problem with today's "Country" music. I listen to it all the time. I just wish the old traditional country music was still being done. Does that make me old fashioned,? Well if it does then I am OK with that.

I would like to see it being cut and called COUNTRY music and they could call today's Country whatever they want.

Yes Alan Jackson is close. But it is billed as Neo Traditional..NEO=NEW. Alan Jackson is one of my favorites.

Taylor Swift is very talented, no one is trying to take that away from her. She is probably the face of things to come.
But listen to a Loretta Lynn Album then listen to a Taylor Swift Album and tell me how they compare. The music is different. Not better or worse, Different.

You guys make it sound like anyone who wants to hear traditional country music is committing a sin.

I was in a club in Nashville last week and was listening to people talk about the music.
It wasn't pretty. And these people were a lot younger than me. The gist of the talk was pretty much "Country music is done" this is what we will get from now on and the people were NOT happy about it.

I think Charlie Rich said it best in 1975 when he burned John Denver's envelope containing his CMA Entertainer of the Year Award rather than present it to him during the ceremony.