Frank Kogan

It's a full-on Marit song, more than anything, but I do think the "country" in it is deeply embedded in the structure - the melody and the rhythm, not just the instrumentation. I could imagine Roger Miller singing it. Of course, "country" is up for grabs, and with some songs on country radio you'll have twangy singing, and fiddles and banjos, on melodies and rhythms that wouldn't have been considered country twenty-five years ago. So for some records it's just accent and instrumentation that are the country determinants. (I wasn't paying much attention to the genre twenty-five years ago, but my guess is that country was just as much up for grabs then, though with somewhat different elements in play: maybe if country's disco leanings had taken hold more, LeAnn's "And It Feels Like" would be considered unproblematically country now. It's not disco per se - it's a diva slow dance, basically - but it lives in something of a disco space.)