The other is called the Academy of Country Music, and it was formed in 1964 as the Country & Western Music Academy ... which takes everything from radio play and album sales to music videos ...

Country music is not—and never was—one style of music. It has always been a mixture of many styles, springing from many roots and sprouting many new branches to create a complicated chorus of ...

and had fallen in love with Western music. I’ve always had a problem with what I call “the geographical imperative.” In other words, you had to be from Alabama to sing country music.