country music

This week we learned about country music. Before this class, I only looked at country music as songs about beer, girls, summer, and love. Being a person of color and coming from a predominately white town, I would listen to only the basic fun songs to sing along to. I never really had an interest in it but I listened to some and found them catchy. "Wagon Wheel" by Darius Rucker was the first country song I've ever listened to and I thought it was weird that a person of color was writing country music. After this class, I learned that there is a lot more to country music. There is a story behind a good majority of songs, but country artist tend to get deep and in their feelings about their songs because they are singing about things they love. There is a good mix of love songs and songs that get pretty political.