Country music has earned a pretty well-deserved reputation for a few familiar tropes. Every other song is about beer? Sure. Country artists are proudly patriotic? That checks out, too.

But not every stereotype about the genre holds up.

Die-hard country fans already know that many of the most common assumptions about country music are more myth than fact.

Take songwriting, for example. If you’ve spent any time in Nashville, you know it’s a songwriter’s town — and the idea that every country star writes their own songs isn't even close to being true.

Likewise, anyone who’s been to a country concert knows the idea that every show is packed with slow, acoustic ballads just doesn’t hold up.

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