[Martina]

I am a huge Patty Griffin fan. She's got a lot of country tunes. What a writer.

Country music is a mutt -- combination of all kinds of influences: blues, old-timey, folk, rock, R&B, jazz and pop. People criticized Chet Atkins for being too poppy and jazzy. A lot of the folks doing traditional sounding country now have absolutely no connection to the land or the culture. But they do great music. Even Doc Watson, rest in peace, started out as a rock musician. But the folk revival was going strong, and he found he could make money that way. There is no such thing as pure country music and probably hasn't been since before there were professional country musicians.