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By their sheer demographic weight, the nation's 76 million baby boomers continue to determine America's musical preferences. And what America currently prefers is country. Brooks now outsells Michael Jackson and Guns 'N Roses, country radio is trumping Top 40, and Nashville is churning out new stars so fast...
Country is also benefiting from the determined eclecticism of the twentysomething generation. At a Nashville concert by country hunk Alan Jackson, Brandi Byrd, 19, arrived with her hair teased into a punk sculpture, wearing a replica of an artfully threadbare Aerosmith outfit. At home she puts her Jackson and Brooks...
Country music seems right on time for the abstinent '90s. Randy Travis' first hit single, On the One Hand, set the tone in 1985, in an ambivalent lament that "on the one hand, I count the reasons/ I could stay with you/ . . . But on the other hand/ There's a...
Marriage counseling is in, and so is staying sober. The barfly characters who cried in their beer in classic country songs have been displaced by yuppified drinkers who, in the words of a Reid song, are content to be sitting on their porch and "sippin' some wine/ from my coffee...
There is Travis Tritt, whose early affection for the Allman Brothers and the Eagles can be heard in the lush melancholy of his tunes and such spiky go-to- hell anthems as Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares). And there are Carlene Carter and Rosanne Cash, two of...