Country and bluegrass music icon Ricky Skaggs has followed, almost in-line, with George Jones in lamenting the state of country music. He said in a recent conversation that "If (country) stays on the American Idol scene where its videos want to look like VH1 and the sound wants to be so far away from country; and be more pop and be more absorbed by the pop listener where someone buys a John Mayer CD and a hip-hop CD and a Taylor Swift CD — there’s hardly any differentiation anymore."
Ricky went on to state that the use of "Sweet Home Alabama" as an example of 'country music' is almost an agregious thing to him. While I agree with Ricky Skaggs on the latter part, I don't think there's anything wrong with a fan liking multiple genres. Do you agree or disagree with Ricky?
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