California Sunrise<\/em> 10-year anniversary album on June 12, divulged with the UK Number one radio station where he started in on the state of country music in today\u2019s world. For headstrong traditionalists, the idea that country music has become a blanket umbrella for so many sub-genres is an immediate eye roller. However, for the industry as a whole, its growing fan base, and musicians who want to showcase their country roots with an eclectic flair, country music is at its peak. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
As Pardi explains on the show to host Baylen Leonard, \u201ccountry music has always been like Velcro that you just stick, you know, rip and stick whatever styles are cool or you know, \u2018I like this, but I\u2019m going to make it like country.’\u201d<\/strong> He adds, \u201cIt\u2019s the new rock n\u2019 roll. I mean, it\u2019s the new classic rock.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nAnd you know what, I can\u2019t say I disagree with him as the genre continues to grow and expand its doors. Country music is probably the only place where you can find as much experimental instrumentation, which Pardi affirms, adding, \u201cWhere else do guitar solos shine anymore, besides in country music?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nHe gives the example of Pop music, saying there are truly no tracks that feature guitar solos anymore. Long gone are the days of turning on the radio and hearing the alt-pop sounds and mainstream rock ripping a guitar solo on any Hot 100 hits stations. <\/p>\n
As for country music, we have artists like Treaty Oak, the newly founded 80 Acres, Ole 60, Koe Wetzel, Dexter and the Moonrocks, all sprinkling in country elements with guitar instrumentals. Heck, even Avery Anna was catching heat for her rockin\u2019 inaugural ACM performance last night of \u201cBlood Runs Thicker\u201d with people online calling it \u201ctoo heavy.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the fun of the genre, though, as Pardi affirms, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s always somebody ripping a guitar in a country song or a steel or a fiddle like it\u2019s very instrumental. It\u2019s a very diverse genre.\u201d <\/strong>Even mainstream artists over the years, like Chris Stapleton, Ella Langley, Luke Combs, Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, and Keith Urban, have kept this energy alive. <\/p>\nOutside of the rock influence, the \u201cDirt On My Boots\u201d singer also gives the example of RIAA\u2019s highest certified country artist, Morgan Wallen. There\u2019s a reason the man continues to top charts with his May 2025 album, I\u2019m The Problem,<\/em> and is able to easily<\/em> sell out massive stadium tours. <\/p>\nHis music has a bit of every influence, offering a sound for every type of listener with an undeniable mass appeal. When it comes to tracks like \u201cThinkin\u2019 Bout Me\u201d and \u201cCowgirls\u201d in Pardi\u2019s words, \u201cThere\u2019s some Morgan Wallen songs that basically are a rap beat with him singing a country melody and country lyrics. But it\u2019s bad a**, like everybody loves it and he pulls it off like one of the best.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nHate it or love it, country music is constantly evolving and expanding, but at least it\u2019s still a genre where you can crank up the volume, jam out in the car, and pretend you\u2019re shredding an air guitar.<\/p>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source countrychord.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMr. Saturday Night\u201d recently sat down with Absolute Radio Country to give his hot take that is surprisingly\u2026 not that hot when you really think about it. The country music star Jon Pardi, who\u2019s gearing up for the official release of his California Sunrise 10-year anniversary album on June 12, divulged with the UK Number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2422495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[366076],"class_list":["post-2422494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-jon-pardi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jon-Pardi-Says-Country-Music-Is-The-New-Rock-N.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2422494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422496,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422494\/revisions\/2422496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2422495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}