Photo: Kacey Musgraves | By Mary Kate Carr, AV Club / Yahoo | There’s something in the air this summer that made people want to put on their cowboy boots and appreciate some country twang. Some of it, to be sure, is a reaction against “wokeness,” as we saw with a few of the summer’s biggest hits. But that can’t fully account for the way country music has dominated the charts over the last few months.
The latest beneficiary of this trend is “I Remember Everything,” a collaboration between Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves, which debuted at the top of this week’s Billboard Hot 100. Musgraves, who won the Grammy for Album of the Year for Golden Hour in 2019, is a crossover star who no doubt gave the track a boost. . . .
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What accounts for country music’s chart dominance? It doesn’t seem accurate to say that today’s country artists are better than ever before, nor that the top songs are stronger than ever. (“Try That In A Small Town” and “Rich Men North Of Richmond” certainly aren’t the genre’s best examples of songwriting, and “Fast Car” isn’t an original track.) . . .
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Country Music Wins the Summer as Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves Hit #1
