Singer-songwriter Shawn Camp is our guest on Roots Music Rambler this week. He’s written No. 1 hits for Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn and others. He plays in a Flatt & Scruggs-driven super group of pickers (The Earls of Leicester). So we asked him what he thought about today’s top-40 country music.
His answer did not disappoint.
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Chicagoan Francesca Folinazzo (Frank) founded Roots Music Rambler as a music and travel blog in a pre-pandemic world. COVID killed events and travel plus her desire to play her banjo. Falls texted her in 2023 and said, 'Let's bring it back as a podcast!' He was raised on John Prine, babysat on Waylon Jennings and taught to drink and cuss the proper, mountain way. He hails from Pikeville, Ky., the birthplace of Dwight Yoakum, whose annual festival is Hillbilly Days.