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Hi So

This is not only the case with Country but all forms of popular music. If you LOVED Rock from back in the day your even worse off.

The distance between Merle & Trace are big but not THAT big...
Try the distance between Pink Floyd,Genesis,Zeppelin,countless others, and ANY Band out today... Not even in the same universe! Soul & R&B doesn't fair well either.

I liked a lot of 80's Country main stream because A- It started to take a more rock & popular direction but it still didn't get overall hokey in many cases. Restless Hearts songs have great qualities to them, they sound singer songwriter like, they rock, they are CATCHY! They have well written clever natural lyrics great singing and playing..Today with nothing much left to write about (poor writers) they have to completely contrive songs.. That means you have this pretty melody and you look out the window and around the room for stuff to write about.
It starts to become too obvious for many listeners.

But anyway what you need to try is what I do, LOOK elsewhere, Like the others mentioned. Forget the radio.
I have Roku this little cable box that gives me Netflix. On it is a channel called MOG it's $5 a month and gives me a massive library of songs to listen to day & night... You can find albums and songs from people you do like that may NEVER even heard before.. Nice! Was doing that last week with Joni Mitchell

I go BACKWARDS As well... There is sooooo much stuff I'm into and then so much I missed I can't even believe it. It's like going BACK to find great movies.

Go back and find the people who inspired your favorite artists..
Go random to find new people who still do what you like... Bend a little with them. Recognize the good qualities and TREASURE the fact that nobody is as GREAT as your idols cause that's what makes them special and so GREAT!'

Also consider MORE than Country to fill your appetite.

All the best,
Mike