How's the country music scene in Phoenix?

[JGMotorsport64]

Phoenix has had two large musical movements in the last 20 years.

Frat rock alternative
Post-Hardcore

Those were/are the real music scenes around here.

But Phoenix has always been a rock city not a country city. Think of the larger bands that came through here.

[KurtAZ]

Well...again this is all subjective to the person's point of view. I don't know of any "Country music stations shutting down"...KMLE and KNIX are still going strong in the valley, KAFF up North. I am pretty sure the Garth Brooks concert a couple of months ago was sold out and we have attended plenty of Country concerts in the valley. There is still a strong horse culture in the valley...most choose not to see it and a lot has been pushed out to the edges...but there are still plenty of breeders and farms in Scottsdale, Gilbert, Chandler, Queen Creek etc. If you are just into the "Urban lifestyle" you won't notice or be privy to the goings on outside your echo chamber. While I would agree that the scene is NOT what it used to be, that is the dying down of the Rhinestone Cowboys (again) because of the widespread appeal of George Strait, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, etc from the 90s. That and any more the Country music artists today are a bit more...mainstream?

[Hschlick84]

Even the Garth Brooks concert up at the Pepsi Center in Denver sold out a couple years ago. Country is not dead compared to what some people say on the boards, they just don't like the genre and prefer to see it go away because it's blue-collar music. I can understand country music not being popular up in the northeast, like around NYC, Philadelphia, Newark and Boston.