Does Mindy Smith's music really count as country or not?

Question

I think the analogy goes like this:
Mindy Smith is to Country as Norah Jones is to Jazz.

Answer 1

Why doesn't it count?..
She breaks a mold so she isn't conventional country..she isn't that good ole bubba boy hick...crap we hear hour after hour on the dial..
she defines her own space with talent..maybe that's shaking the proverbial tree in "country"...isnt about time..country took a new step..in a positive direction.........
I for one am sick of all the george strait wanna be cowboys clogging the air with same same sounding trash..about trucks and beer bottles...
Mindy Smith...is at least...origional.......Toby,,Kieth can you say that...or are you too stuck on sounding like hank Jr to grasp the concept...?
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