Hysteria is probably the reaction you would get if you asked a fan of classic rock, to listen to country music. A friend of mine recently put this piece of music on Facebook, with a mention to me, as he thought I might like it. His musical tastes are fairly broad, as are mine, but recently he has developed a keen interest in country music. He is putting a fair bit of it on Facebook, trying to change perceptions of it, and highlighting the amazing lyrical contents involved. Country music is also reinventing itself to a wider audience, and is not pure country and western.
Having given this some thought, it would appear to me that much classic rock had it's birth in country type music. Jimi Hendrix covered a Bob Dylan song for starters. A lot of the early classic rock was birthed in the 1960's and early
1970's West coast sound formulated by ex folk singers, and hippies.
The track below is Def Leppard with Taylor Swift at a country music awards night. Apparently Def Leppard were nominated for three country music awards. I do not know what this means for either classic rock or country, but enjoy anyway...
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