Inman: Campus concerts need less country, more variety

If you were to take a look at my Apple Music Replay over the last several years, the vast majority of songs you would see would fall into the genre of country music. For as much of a country music fan as I pride myself on being, even I can see that the new campus concert announcements are becoming heavily saturated by the genre.

Last week, Clemson Athletics announced a new concert series in Jervey Meadows that would serve as a precursor to the Death Valley Nights concert series that will kick off in May. Following the announcements that country stars George Strait and Morgan Wallen would headline shows at Memorial Stadium, I was hopeful that this new series would feature something other than country music.

Those hopes were quickly shattered when I learned that Jake Owen, another country music singer, would be the headline artist…

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