{"id":40870,"date":"2022-09-13T17:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=40870"},"modified":"2022-09-13T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:04:47","slug":"atlanta-is-one-of-the-best-cities-for-country-music-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=40870","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta is one of the best cities for country music fans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If bluesy, downhome lyrics sound like your life\u2019s story, then you probably love you some good ol\u2019 country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, where are the best U.S. cities to live like you were dying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marking International Country Music Day this Sept. 17 \u2014\u00a0and the re-release of Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lawnstarter.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=47a0c24b38cd023e92bd5a056&amp;id=0804cc9d49&amp;e=c10f80b47b\">9 to 5<\/a>\u201d with Kelly Clarkson just last week \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lawnstarter.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=47a0c24b38cd023e92bd5a056&amp;id=b0a9d1c181&amp;e=c10f80b47b\">LawnStarter<\/a> ranked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lawnstarter.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=47a0c24b38cd023e92bd5a056&amp;id=8d01d5389b&amp;e=c10f80b47b\">2022\u2019s Best Cities for Country Music Fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company compared over 180 of the biggest cities based on eight key factors, such as the number of country music concerts, access to performance venues, and the affordability of concert tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also gauged local interest in the genre based on Google search data, the number of country music stations, and even the existence of country music museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the 10 best country music scenes below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Best Cities for Country Music Fans<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>City<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Nashville, TN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>New York, NY<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td>Salt Lake City, UT<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>4<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Atlanta, GA<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>Charleston, SC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6<\/td><td>Chicago, IL<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7<\/td><td>Austin, TX<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8<\/td><td>Richmond, VA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9<\/td><td>Eugene, OR<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td>Denver, CO<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=3]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If bluesy, downhome lyrics sound like your life\u2019s story, then you probably love you some good ol\u2019 country. So, where are the best U.S. cities to live like you were dying? Marking International Country Music Day this Sept. 17 \u2014\u00a0and the re-release of Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201c9 to 5\u201d with Kelly Clarkson just last week \u2014\u00a0LawnStarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8482,12257,8472],"class_list":["post-40870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-atlanta","tag-country-music","tag-fulton-county","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}