I’m usually not a fan of just re-posting news items for blog posts, however this story was highly compelling.  Country music has enjoyed a precarious relationship with its fans, one built up and specialized over the last 30 years.  What happens, then, when your fans refuse to adpot to the same new business models labels and managers are being forced into?

Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/14/AR2009061402241.html

“Perhaps more disturbing to the country music industry is the news that 42 percent of those ardent fans who do not have home Internet access have no desire to remedy the situation.”