Is there a conspiracy

[Pat Burns]

Lefty, click on the link below and give a couple of those tunes a listen...even if country music was headed for extinction (and it isn't) the pedal steel guitar would go on strong...

www.tyacktunes.com

[Don McClellan]

rayman calling someone else a bigot and a racist is like George W. Bush saying Al Gore isn't presimadential.

[rickw]

Hey,you people may not know this, there is alot of black people who listen to country music. They wan`t addmit it to each other,but I have pen them down on this qestion many times, of course in a nice way. I think in a few years, there will be many black country performers. I know one band that the female singer is black.These people are stomp down country.I think the now country will bring it on. I`ll just stay with the HAG. Thank Rick

[Martin Abend]

Sorry,

but there have been a lot of afro-american country stars, only to mention Ray Charles.
White male middleclass guys don't own this kind of music.
People who want to kill white culture... geez, where do you live ???


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[Boomer]

In 1998 and part of '99 I was head of A&R for DeltaDisc, a label promoting a black female country artist. I am very familiar with the numbers regarding blacks that listen and buy country music. A whopping 17% of country listeners are black, but only one per cent of them attend country events, the reason being fear of confrontation with that element of society who shows up to some of those outdoor events in a big foot truck covered with confederate flags, bumper stickers that say "Forget, Hell" and gunracks complete with a 12 guage and 30-06. But never mind what I drive, I can definitely understand their concern. And they have to be taken under consideration as a legitimate consumer of country music and should be given the same consideration when welcoming them in to our musical community as the rest of us were. Best, Boomer