And I'd say the young-people's music that is the most "rootsy" in terms of hearkening back to older styles also tends to be the most self-conscious, evident in styles of dress and facial hair. The trend in country music was to slowly and steadily become more modern, even as each generation did something that the previous saw as against the spirit - drum kits, or amplified instruments. Young people with no connection to a country life suddenly donning washboards, big bellies, and edward scissorhands-sculpted beards is more calculated to me than the modern country crossover stuff.

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