- Brian Chilson
- Lady Antebellum played at Verizon Arena Wednesday.
Lately country music is many things.
Clean-cut traditionalist George Strait can still, after more than 30 years, send a single to the top of the charts. And Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert, though differing in styles, both can pack an arena. But more and more, it’s a world that belongs to country-pop queen Taylor Swift and her shaggy-haired male counterparts that populate the many so-called country groups.
Halfway through 2012, Central Arkansas has already seen the likes of Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Rascal Flatts, the Zac Brown Band, Sara Evans, Chris Young and Alison Krauss. But perhaps no show this year illustrates the current state of country music as well as Wednesday night’s triple bill of Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker and Thompson Square at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock.
(Read the rest after the jump, plus more photos from Brian Chilson.)