Elitism Has No Place in Red Dirt: A Response to Saving Country Music’s Stillwater Snub
When a historic Red Dirt reunion brought 200,000 fans to Stillwater, one journalist skipped it—and then threw shade from the sidelines. Here’s why gatekeeping, ego, and elitist hot takes are hurting the very community we claim to serve. This one’s personal, and I’m saying it with my whole chest.