It's been a while since there's been a legitimate country smash on the pop charts (Taylor Swift doesn't count; neither does Pitbull), but the bottom half of the Hot 100 stays consistently full of the stuff. Unlike the large format, largely female-fronted, post-Shania stuff that defined country's last big stranglehold on the pop charts, the most successful stuff now is relatively modest and easygoing, less glammed-up rock star and more low-key, handsome small-town guy in a beat-up baseball cap and a flannel whose idea of fun involves keg beer and a friendly Jagermeister shot-off.…
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