A legend who once was known as “No Show Jones” for his inability to show up to perform at shows while a top concert draw, recently said that he worries about the future of country music to Yahoo and the Associated Press. He said that he liked the music that artists like Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood make but though that "they've stolen our identity."
George Jones also stated that artists like Underwood and Swift "had to use something that was established already, and that's traditional country music. So what they need to do really, I think, is find their own title, because they're definitely not traditional country music.”
Jones then went on to praise the artists that he does like right now and they included old standbys like George Strait and Alan Jackson, stating: “It's good to know that we still do traditional country music. We still have it, and there's quite a few of us that are going to hope that it comes back one of these days."
What do you think of George Jones’ comments? Does there need to be a new name for today’s country music? Or is it just that, “Today’s country music?”
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