After more than three decades of broadcasting from the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry, a live country radio program, has moved about nine miles from the city to Opryland USA A few months after After the move, hostess Carolyn Holloran said, "Country music is wherever the soul of a country music fan is!"1 This quote was said in reference to the relocation of the Grand Ole Opry. However, it can transcend this context to further describe the genre of country music. From its Appalachian roots to its commercialization and crossovers, country music has come to represent the culture of the Southern United States. Through this music people have formed a collective identity that respects the past and salutes the future. It's a genre that has grown and changed with its people. In the 1940s, popular songs included Bill Monroe's “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!" by Tex Williams and "Lovesick Blues" by Hank Williams.2 These songs share similarities with today's country songs, such as "Drink a Beer" by Luke Bryan, "Carolina" by Parmalee and "Wasting All These Tears" by Cassadee Pope. 3 We find that we can trace common themes across the seven decades of music, such as leisure activities, southern states, and heartbreak. Further research conducted by Kakde, Ghanekar, and Sindhu of Kavi Associates to test their program Lyric readings were performed using Billboard's top 20 country songs from the years 1985 to 2010. Their results confirmed the themes of heartbreak and country life, as well as identifying others such as family, religion and memories analysis of the frequency of these themes, country life was sung most often, followed by heartbreak and family. The most often sung states include Texas, Alabama, and Tennessee; with many other Southern states maintaining multiple lyrical mentions of their own. 4 These data confirm it