Country Music: All Pickup Trucks, Girls in Jeans, Drinking by the Riverbank.

Fox News doesn't get a lot of love 'round these parts, but a story I just saw there might earn them just a bit of redemption.

They ran a story recently about a critic's rant about the sameness of Country Music.

I like country music. I even like some of what the critic above is talking about. I linked to the YouTube video below in case you refuse to go to the Fox site out of principle.

Driving your pick-up truck down a dirt road under the moonlight to pick up your girl who wears tight jeans, and then getting drunk on a river bank.

That's what Entertainment Weekly's country critic Grady Smith said mainstream country acts sing about these days. And he cut a hilarious, and illuminating, YouTube video to prove it.

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But he's right. The music genre is stuck in about as deep a rut as I've ever seen. It tends to sound alike as it is. But 2013 was a particularly unsatisfying year in country music, with a few exceptions. I'd probably add two or three acts to the list Grady Smith has at this link. But I basically agree with him.

Keith Urban cut some patriotic stuff that I like. The Band Perry had some awesome attitude. Tim Mcgraw still cuts a hot album, although I recall he gives in to this rut now and again.

I'm hoping for a revival in 2014. Especially if American Idol runner up Kree Harrison releases an album. But, basically, I'm going to forget country music existed in 2013.

Nashville Network is broadcasting in our area, and I pass over their music video shows now and again.

It's white toast and marmalade. Tasty and savory now and again. Tiresome when it's all you eat.