On the Highway of Music Rock is the hybrid.

 

Country music is country music. Sure there is a lot of modern pop and rock influence going into it these days, and sure a lot of the “pop stars with cowboy hats" stuff doesn’t even sound like country music any more, but country music is still country.

 

Same goes for Jazz. Jazz has probably weathered attempts to modernize (once again by adding pop influences) a whole lot better than Country, but it’s still Jazz

 

Classical….well, it’s Classical. It doesn’t change. Because some things need to be timeless. .

 

But Rck is the hybrid.

 

Rock started as a hybrid. Blues musicians where trying to amp up the blues, and country musicians where trying to play the blues and rock happened.

 

From that starting point rock became the genre where we mix in blues, pop, country, folk, classical, soul, jazz and more.

 

Rock can be soft, & rock can be hard, it can sound folksy, funky, or just plain weird. Rock can silly and rock can be deadly serious.  In rock you can write a 45 minute concept piece about the afterlife, or you can write a 2min and 30 sec song about how red hot your girl is.

 

Rock is political and rock is about your car. Rock is about love and rock is about hate. Rock can be about values and stability and rock can be about reckless abandon.

 

Rock can be anything we want it to be.

 

And this is why I love it and this is why it is my favorite.