PhotoThe shifts have been relatively quick, leaving the elders of the bro country movement seeking relevance in a changed landscape. “Texoma Shore” is Blake Shelton’s 11th album since 2001, and “What Makes You Country” is Luke Bryan’s sixth since 2007. “Texoma Shore” is autopilot Shelton: amiable, rapscallionish, but with a few concessions to the current moment, in which oafs have brushed their hair, shaved their scruff and tried to make right. View all New York Times newsletters. But Mr. Shelton, despite earlier experiments, isn’t truly interested in genre progressivism — he’s a classicist gripping a fifth of whiskey, happily watching everyone around him scramble.

Source: New York Times December 06, 2017 19:18 UTC