Country music can stir up quiet a debate among its fans and critics who show a strong devotion for its worth, values, and meaning. On an episode of The Donny and Marie show, during their 'I'm a little bit country - I'm a little bit rock 'n roll' skit, (although I'm sure it was all part of the script and had no 'real' meaning) was quoted as saying 'Country music is always about somebody's dead cow or a sad story about somebody breaking their toe', (at least that is the best I can remember it as it has been years since I last saw the show before it was cancelled). Even our world leaders have voiced their opinions about it when President George H. W. Bush declared October, 1990 "Country Music Month" to commemorate how the US about their country as in their faith in God and their devotion to family and freedom and hard work.

From a critics point of view, Aaron Fox, a professional country guitarist Aaron Fox said, "for many cosmopolitan Americans, especially, country is 'bad' music precisely because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked, neutral condition of lacking (or trying to shed) race, but as a marked, foregrounded claim of cultural identity - a bad whiteness...unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or the noblesse oblige of elite musical culture."

One thing I think we can all agree on is that country music has been around for a long time and, regardless of what ever other ' genres of music that come and go, country music will be around for a very long time to come.