Little Bit Country, Little Bit Rock&Roll

What the heck happened?  While I may have poked fun at my country and western fans way back when, I always appreciated the music & talent.  I get that there has always been crossover - Kenny Rogers, Glen Campbell, etc.
Then Kid Rock has a hit. Darius Rucker loses the Blowfish and channels Charley Pride, along with Lionel Richie(?).
And a song about the Boss is nominated for Country Music Song of the Year.

I have a Brother-in-Law that always enjoyed Country;
Helped the Lovely Wife when she arranged all the travel for the old country music station, KZLA, and their first ever County Music weekend festival (had a great time and met some great country music stars of the day - thanks Mr. Tillis);
And especially listened to a lot more country while living in the Great State of Colorado- hard not to.

So today, whilst driving about SoCal, heard the latest Taylor Swift song on the local country station - Go Country 105 FM.  Very nice song and performed nicely on the CMA's this week. A few minutes later I heard the same song on a Pop Music station  - I had heard Taylor did the Shania thing and made different versions of the same song.

Colour me country - BTW, that is the Canadian way of spelling color - but I much preferred the country version.  In fact, I did not like the music overlay of the 'pop' version.
This is odd to me because I am a firm believer that there is no such thing as a BAD version of a GOOD song.  Go figure.
Certainly, the Pop version is fine.  But I liked the Country version better.  As Donny and Marie would sing, I'm a little bit country...
Rock on...