Vince Gill Performed For Four Hours At The Ryman And Country Music Is Not Dead, It Is Only Sleeping

Much of the set list was made up of material from “These Days,” and the audience was pleased enough with the new songs that the absence of some well-known, well-worn hits wasn’t an issue.

Then I reflected, turning off junk on the radio as I drove home, this turtle was in pretty much the same situation as country music finds itself today. Hit by sudden so-called progress that it is powerless to control, and frozen by fear, country music is stuck in the middle of the highway and afraid to move.

He also mentions that CDs are dying, a trend that a lot of analysts have been echoing lately. I’d be distraught if CDs ever fully got replaced. I buy my share of digital downloads, but for every album I purchase online I probably buy three CDs. There’s something about the tangibility of CDs that I prefer over digital files, not to mention the album artwork and liner notes. Flippo concludes that country music is not dead, it’s just sleeping. I sure hope so.