I know he’s persona non grata around these parts, but Eric Church did an interview with Rolling Stone years ago where he said something like, I never intended to be country. I play rock and roll. They just put me on country radio. Listen to my music, there’s no fiddle or banjo or pedal steel.spacemonkey wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2026 4:58 pmBest post I have read on Yosef's Cabin. I have never thought of it that way but very true. You have to decide who is going to push your music....the country station or the pop station and then try to look the part. If you don't fit one of those you get no play time.MrCraig wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2026 1:19 pmThat's kind of ironic, because I think if Tom Petty were to just be starting in today's popular music world, he'd be pigeonholed as country. If it has a slight twang, it's considered country these days.
Eric Church is far more akin to John Mellencamp than he is Conway Twitty.
Chris Stapleton has more in common, sonically, with the Allman Bros. or Lynyrd Skynyrd than George Jones or Hank Williams.
That was what first led me to this conclusion.
