"What you hear is real, lower-class struggle," says Bill Ivey, the director of the Country Music Foundation in Nashville.

According to Bill Ivey, this innovative genre originated in Nashville, Tennessee and thus became known as Nashville Sound.

Bill Ivey is an American folklorist, and was the seventh chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

"Someone told me Lajitas is being turned into a Disneyland for old people," said Bill Ivey, who runs the Lajitas trading post, which once was the town's only business.

Bill Ivey, the director of the Country Music Foundation in Nashville, says that country-music television has been the window through which larger society has looked at country culture.

"Over the last 15 years, the industry has become bigger and healthier, but less local," said Bill Ivey, executive director of the Country Music Foundation.

"Fan Fair has become a symbol of country music's popularity and its new role in popular culture," said Bill Ivey, the director of the Country Music Foundation.

"Marlboro came to us 18 months ago and asked what we thought the next step should be," the foundation's director, Bill Ivey, said the other day.

Bill Ivey, the director of the local country-music museum and hall of fame, ranks its impact with the startling arrival in 1954-55 of rockabilly music (E. Presley and others).

Bill Ivey, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, said the three musicians "have enriched this country with their astounding artistic achievements."