The '80s were a transitional decade for country music: a time when artists could try out different styles and approaches -- and, by extension, adopt new traditions that would come to reverberate in the '90s and beyond.
It's been 36 years since MTV first launched with the music video for "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles. Since then, we've had major booms and musical revolutions in rock, pop, hip-hop, even country. And while their first day was filled with Pat Benatar, Rod Stewart and The Who, it was another five years before MTV aired its first country video (three years after CMT launched,
It's been 35 years since MTV first launched with the music video for "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles. Since then, we've had major booms and musical revolutions in rock, pop, hip-hop, even country. And while their first day was filled with Pat Benatar, Rod Stewart and The Who, it was another five years before MTV aired its first country video (three years after CMT launched,