I guess I’m someone who was just never into rock. I’ve always been country. Wasn’t even really a Beatles fan, never mind K.I.S.S. Give me Marty Robins or Johnny Cash any day. :)

Brad Paisley had Eric Church open for him here in Toronto last summer and my husband (who likes a few country artists but not county music generally) and I were with friends who had their 12-year old daughter along (and had given us the tickets).

We could barely make out any of the words for the wall of guitar music blaring away while Eric sang. And the words we did make out weren’t necessarily ones we wanted to hear. :)

Only their daughter was into country music (e.g. Taylor Swift) and they were all kind of perplexed.

To be honest, I felt kind of embarrassed. I’m going, “Well, I guess some people might call him country, but he’s not exactly my idea of country.” I was kind of surprised Brad had him with him.

Fortunately Brad’s part of the show was 500 times better in terms of being able to hear the words and liking the songs and great music.

So count me traditional – Scotty is right up my alley. :)