Megan West(erby)

"Other crossover artists initially dared not dream of crossing over to country. When he first appeared on “Gone Country,” Dee Snider recalls, “I started by saying I don’t like country music, and I ended by realizing that saying I don’t like country is as dumb as saying I like all rock and roll. I learned that there are so many different kinds of country. I embraced and fell in love with the hell-raising country [of] Hank Williams Jr. and Gretchen Wilson. And the community itself was so welcoming to me."

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GRAMMY.com

I had a anti-country bias until I discovered Johnny Cash, I’m not gonna lie. There’s still a cultural line between generally respectable country and contemp pop-country, a high-art, low-art split really, which is pretty much what Dee summarizes.

31 July 2009 ·