Jazz improvisation is an art, and most people do not even understand it, much less appreciate it.

The Country music genre is very big. There's the "old-timey" folk styles, bluegrass, the Bakersfield sound (Haggard, Owens, etc.), Nashville, dozens of regional folk styles (e.g. Bayou), and more that we classify as "country" music. Most of the recent recordings of popular country music, from the past fifteen or twenty years, sound more like rock to me. I prefer the older styles of country, and some people continue to make this music - in spite of the major record companies' refusal to release it.

The music industry, as defined by many of today's record companies, is pretty bad - . mainly due to greed.