By Michael McCall Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergTwo young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, helped country expand its fan base in these years of shrinking music sales. Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and George Strait kept filling arenas and at least maintaining their popularity on the road, if not with record sales. But as has often been the case, the best country music has little
After months of speculation, the hour of revelation is now upon us. For all our bitching about bands not playing here it's a nice consolation to have the karmic payback of the largest concert event in North America being a mere 60 miles southeast of our--non-country--culturally-starved metropolis. So buckle the fuck up, Nashville, here is your 2009 Bonnaroo lineup--after the jump, of course. We weren't told which days or stages these artists are playing on, but that is likely to be on the Bonn
