Well, I USED to like Tim McGraw...

[Ronin13]

Billy Currington just pulled out of the show. Good for him.
http://www.ibtimes.com/country-star-...er-gun-1885861

I know he's bro country but there are several of his songs I like when his songs play on the job radio.

I just saw Breitbart reported on this... Seems to me, and I'm not 100% positive, that Currington was on tour with Tim and got booked to do this without realizing what it was really all about. I could be wrong and it could just be he's only backing out after the back lash.

[Aardvark]

I can see it now; 'On Tour: Tim Mcgraw and the Dixie Chicks!'.

[Irving]

I can see it now; 'On Tour: Tim Mcgraw and the Dixie Chicks!'.

And he can change his performance name to the Chixie Dicks.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Upside, if this is true:

Modern country is nothing more than pop music with a southern drawl.

This might not be as true as we'd think:

he's going to lose by pissing all over 90% of his fan base.

you just alienated about 75% of your fan base.

I listen to the country stations on rare occasion, and don't mind "hot, new country!" (or pop, as it were), but I've always thought Tim McGraw was cut from the Dixie Chicks cloth anyway, myself. I've long been skeptical.

[DavieD55]

It really hasn't been a secret that Tim McGraw is a supporter of hard leftist statism. He is a studio cowboy charlatan who is part of the hollywood elite. I believe Paisley is another one.

[ZERO THEORY]

Whatever. "Country" music sucks. Driving a late-model Silverado and slapping a Browning sticker on it doesn't make you a cowboy. Modern "country" is pop music for city slickers who don't think they can pull off the hipster lifestyle, so they buy a pair of Wranglers and a flannel shirt and pretend they're from the sticks.

Give me bluegrass or true western.

[crays]

True Country isn't Western at all. The vast majority of real Country Music has it's origins east of the Mississippi River. Same with Bluegrass.

ETA: Texas breaks this norm...Bob Wills, and all...but a LOT of early classic country is far from "western".

[crays]

Further reflection would have me add eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. West of the ole Mississip, for sure, and maybe that's where the "Western" designation comes from, but that was some time ago.