[deathpunk dan]

modern pop country music is pure crap. Predictable and formulaic retardation for your ears.

Buy him the Gram Parsons anthology, some Uncle Tupelo, Olds 97s, first 2 Wilco albums, a few Lucinda Williams rekkids etc and see if you can't get him on the right track.

Then get him some Louvin Brothers, Kitty Welles, Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Buck Owens etc.

I despise commercial 'country'. The arrangements sound like kenny loggins circa 1984 with an affected twang and lyrical pablum involving the usual 'safe' subjects. Die!