I will forever be biased

I despise country music. I have since before i can remember and i doubt it will change any time soon. I can see how if i put this deep and abiding hatred aside for the times i sit and read Sing Me Back Home, the book might be able to speak to me a bit more, since music is a gigantic part of my life and i completely understand why Jennings makes such an effort to try and ingrain into his audience's head that it can help shape our lives. But i just could not seem to get past the fact that the majority of this book was about country music. Just getting through the first couple pages was a struggle for me, and the personal anecdotes, which are few and strewn completely randomly throughout the book, were the easiest sections for me to get through, and considering their subject matter that should not be the case. I understand how his use of pathos is amplified by helping to relate a huge part of his life and the lives of his family to ours through our emotional connection to music, but the overall effect started off at a severe disadvantage with me, seeing as a large portion of my family thoroughly enjoys country music, and i've already spent a good part of my life learning to tune out their attempts to convert me. Jennings makes a valiant effort to subtly convince me of its merits, and its surprisingly wide range of members and their backgrounds, as well as the power of their lyrics. But while i come away from this book certainly with a more well rounded education in the history of country music, i remain the same in my abhorrence of the genre. In addition, while the personal aspects of Sing Me Back Home were obviously powerful and moving, the lack of consistency and the fact that they often seemed to take a back seat to the musical aspect of the book never really let me connect emotionally to the author or the book in general.