>from what i understand, country music is pretty popular in
>england.

which I only came to understand when the Chieftains began working with first Nanci Griffith, then more mainstream Nashville musicians, in the early 1990s. Don't have any exact source material handy, but recall hearing both the Chieftains and their collaborators discuss how popular the collaborators' music is in Ireland.


>between the AUS/NZ bands and some canadian bluegrass musicians
>i hear during any number of shows on the station, it's usually
>impossible (for me anyway) to tell u.s. country and bluegrass
>music from that made in other nations.

I've found almost as much old-time on Soundcloud from the UK and Australia as from the US. (Doesn't mean there's more of it, and might mean that with a smaller community, they're more driven to virtual outlets than someone who can go to a monthly jam might be, like I could if I didn't have a family).

>so i guess it's like a
>lot of music, we might have started or crystalized it, but
>it's spread all over, which is beautiful.

"Crystallized" is perhaps better since country owes most of its DNA (though far from all) to British Isles traditions of a few centuries ago.

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