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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's such an old song (which I did not like). How is it now just getting to the ears of country music fans?[/quote]
oh, because it was remade by a white man. I got it.[/quote]

You’re so woke aren’t you? You’re not as clever as you think, you’re exhausting. [/quote]

OP here. I'm pretty "woke" (I'm not sure why you think that's a pejorative?). I love that Luke Combs covered this. It's not like he STOLE it. He covered a great song by a great artist, who became the first black person to win a CMA. It's fantastic.

More power to him. And to her. I love crossover songs... The reality is most songs could be performed in a variety of different styles/genres.

I just think it's crazy that a folk song from 1988 that was firmly embraced by the college radio crowd and propelled to the top of the charts resurfaces 35 years later in the country music world ... where it hit the top of the charts. There aren't that many remakes that have that kind of success, let alone crossovers.[/quote]
The irony here is that the crowd that liked her songs were probably woke back then, while I, the PP who stated "oh, because it was remade by a white man. I got it." am not a progressive, at all.  But, I recognize how a song that was written and sung by a black woman 35 years ago, only now won a CMA because a white man sang it, hsa a tinge of racism in it.[/quote]

OP here. I'm not seeing the racism? Trace recorded it as a folk song, not a country song. She won four Grammys. Fast Car was nominated for record and song of the year in 1988 (she won best female pop vocal performance). But it was neither recorded as nor marketed as a country song, so it couldn't have been considered by CMAs in that era?[/quote]
Songs can be crossover.

Some country songs have hit Top 100 Billboard not only 35 years ago but more than 50 years ago. Here's a list.

https://www.liveabout.com/best-country-pop-crossover-songs-3248140[/quote]

Only 6 of those songs have been since 1988 unless I'm missing something,[b] they all were country hits first that were adopted by the pop radio audiences. [/b]

[b]How many pop songs end up on country stations/charts?
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That is the point.    Mainstream will take country music, but country music never really takes to pop songs, unless it's sung by a white man, it seems.[/quote]

No, my point is country musicians don’t cover pop music in general… got any other examples of crossover hits the other way? Otherwise this is just an anomaly and you are stretching [/quote]

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