The Official Country Music Thread Genre • Page 173

I’m assuming The Starting Line

 

So I was looking through this Reddit thread for current “good country” recommendations, and someone recommended a website/blog. I had a look at it and it has a lame name, but looks like it has good stuff. Checked Spotify and they have a playlist of new music that they keep current and it kicks ass.

Maybe all of this is news only to me, but figured I’d share.

 

The guy who runs this site is genuinely one of the biggest pieces of shit I have encountered anywhere on the internet. Couches his misogynistic, racist beliefs in a “trad-country purist” costume, and has a totally gross readership of MAGA lunatics. Back when I was on Twitter and friendly with the country journalism/blogger crowd, he would harass anyone who didn’t share his extremely narrow-minded view of the genre, which meant mostly getting into scrapes with women or people of color. (He actually comes up in the forthcoming installment of My Life In 35 Songs, funnily enough.)

Anyway, would not recommend supporting him or his website in any way. He and people like him are a big part of the reason I drifted away from the genre.

 

I did not know that, I only saw that many of the artists on the list also get mentioned in this thread etc. so that’s why it piqued my interest. My apologies and thanks for the information.

 

No need to apologize, he definitely presents as reasonable/passionate about country music on the surface. I’ve just seen too much to ever support him, and I’ll always tell people who he really is if I see him mentioned.