You know what I mean. Steven Tyler of Aerosmith cut a country album. Jewel cut a country album. The trend was so prevalent that Alan Jackson wrote a song (Gone Country).
But it’s not a recent thing. Dean Martin did it before it was cool, and when Dean Martin did it, it became cool.
A sample:
To be honest, not among my favorite Dean Martin discs.
My favorite, of course, is You Can’t Love ‘Em All:
Strangely, “favorite” does align with “the first record I got by” as it often does.