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...that it can be for dancing, like that Mary Chapin Carpenter piece. How can anybody call Harry Chapin's "Taxi" rock, hm? Ya, it's Mary that rocks, and I'm ready for an encore. I feel lucky.
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...that all this talk of sneaking Cajun into Country put me in the mood for some Mary Chapin Carpenter down at the Twist and Shout. AyEEEE cher.
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Some rockers have sneaked in Country, like Creedence Clearwater Revival doing a cover of Hank Williams, who in turn sneaked Cajun into Country.
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Rockers go Country and don't look back: Kenny Rogers, Charlie Daniels, and....wait, what the hell was Spike Jones & The City Slickers?? Not rock, not classical, not croon, not jazz?
One of the City Slickers went off to do Country, and that's Red Ingles who debuted with an incognito Jo Stafford with a distinctive rendition of "Temptation"....named "Timtayshun".
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...that rockers are just going to have to deal with how Steve "Funky Tut" Martin went all bluegrass on everybody.
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Rockers hate to admit that they like Country even when Country hits make it to the rock charts; onversely, today's Country artists want to be rockers. Is it the twang that makes it Country, not Rock? Hello Duane Eddy.
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...that it wasn't the death of Patsy Cline that killed off "Classic Country"--it was Bob Wills.
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Diehard rockers don't know that they're being fed Country when you sneak it up on 'em.
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...that there's no place that I'd rather be than right here
With my rednecks, white socks and blue ribbon beer
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that there is no such thing as Country Music outside of industry definition, which was relatively recent. In the beginning, there were two separate genres called Hillbilly and Cowboy and the industry decided to merge the two and call it Country, whereupon the Hillillies said "oh no you don't!!"...thereby spinning off into bluegrass, rendering Country right back to Cowboy until the Cajuns butted in with Cowboy Zydeco.