Sammy Kershaw Says the Changes in Country Music Have Been a Long Time Coming

Sammy Kershaw has a new album out called Do You Know Me? A Tribute To George Jones so he's been on the interview circuit, talking about the new project. Being a "classic" country star, it was natural for Country Weekly to ask him about the great divide in Country music (traditional country vs. pop country vs. bro country) in their August 11, 2014 issue.

Surprisingly, or maybe not surprisingly at all considering the fact that Kershaw is quite comfortable in his country skin, he didn't pick a side to praise and a side to trash. In fact, he said that the change has been a long time coming. He said, "Look, I’ve always said country music is the only genre that hates itself. It wants to be everything else, but country music. I’ve been in it for a long, long time and I’ve seen the changes, but it always comes back. But now, I don’t see it coming back. It finally found a route to go."

Now if only the fans and music writers that spend more time trashing the artists of today could be so generous. Country music (and its fan base) is certainly big enough for all of the aspects of the style and the beauty of this day and age is that if you don't like a song, you can change the station, not buy the download and/or not go to the concerts of those performing a style of country that you don't like!