IMHO, modern day country is some of the best and absolute worst it's ever been. For the most part, country radio is just canned & commercialized pop music for rednecks. Weird rap music about booze, women, dirt roads, maybe with a fiddle/banjo sample. There's not much individuality, nothing wholly unique about 99% of it.

But if you're willing to dig a bit, they're are some real badasses still holding it down. Guys like Jason Isbell, Colter Wall, Sturgill Simpson (I hesitate to call Sturgill country, he's kind of doing his own thing that's more of a country-esque spin-off), Tyler Childers.

I absolutely know I'm nostalgic for the older stuff, but it's hard to care about Florida Georgia Line when you grew up on The Highwaymen.