Do you know what you are?

If you have known me at all (and if you have, you may be entitled to compensation for your troubles!) you know that one of the topics on which I will declaim loud and long (mainly loud) (also long) is the withering of my beloved traditional country music, the kind with the sad lyrics, the sawing fiddles, the howling steel guitar, all that. The Hank Williams School of Country Music seems to be in business no longer, replaced by a dozen guys named Blake and Burke and Zach and Luke and Morgan and another Luke and I don't know who-all else.

It's country technically, but it isn't for me, so I just listen to the old stuff in peace. I'm happy with my headphones, jamming Buck Owens down my ears. I don't go around be-otching about it.

I wouldn't do what Gavin Adcock (is he famous at all?) is doing, which is slagging Beyoncé’s entrance into country music.

This Adcock (I couldn't pick him out of a lineup, although I'm sure he will be in one someday) posted to Instagram last week, a tirade filmed during one of his recent concerts (well-attended, certainly) that contained a jumped-up speech that seemed to deliver a sort of warning to Ms B.

“There’s only three people in front of me on the Apple Music country charts, and one of them is Beyoncé,” Adcock railed. “You can tell her we’re coming for her $@#&@* @$$.”

And with the marvelous use of words that seems to be his hallmark,  Adcock bellowed,  “That (poop) ain’t country music, it ain’t ever been country music and it ain’t gonna be country music.”

Remember when Geo. W. Bush said he was "the decider"? Well, here is one Gavin Adcock, who hath decided that he is the Decider of country music.

Apparently unable to shut his yap, he posted another video, saying, “When I was a little kid, my mama was blasting some Beyoncé in the car. I’ve heard a ton of Beyoncé songs and I actually remember her Super Bowl halftime show being pretty kick-@$$ back in the day, but I really don’t believe that her album should be labeled as country music,” he said. “It doesn’t sound country, it doesn’t feel country, and I just don’t think that people that have dedicated their whole lives to this genre and this lifestyle should have to compete or watch that album just stay at the top just because she’s Beyoncé.”

Well, now, if he has indeed dedicated his whole life to this genre and this lifestyle, then he should sit back and see how the devotees of the genre like his efforts. If they do, yay, Gavin, but if they like Beyoncé better, whaddya gonna do?

Here's what I think you ought to do, Gavin: realize that it's a free country, and if Beyoncé wants to make an album of country, or Latvian folk ballads, just let the market forces decide if she was right to spend her time that way.

I hope that Gavin Whoozit grows as an artist and as a man. He would me to show you his picture. Please enjoy this picture of a turkey we had for Thanksgiving some years ago...