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First off. The amount of labour I put into having a clean music library is more than a 40hr a week job. So that tiny bit of work your are referring to is already busy. Second. I am NOT a country Dj and would like to learn. If they are not broken down into sub categories then I will not be able to learn. And therefore will be useless to me.
I am not going to be able to tell what is what just by listening. I still have to do research on each individual song. The amount of work that I have set out for myself in a short time frame is actually preposterous. Unfortunately, most songs are not labeled by the sub type of country music. Which to my understanding of what I've gotten so far is actually very important.
Therefore...no sub genres. No money from me. Because it would not be helping my cause.
Working with a country DJ for a while doing sound & lights made me realize a lot of things. There are subgenres of country, but you could really break it down into: Slow songs, regular songs and line dances.. That's a country night- everyone's either A. slow dancing, B. line dancing or C. drinking at the bar (no drinks on the wooden dance floor ;) )...
The biggest thing you have to worry about isn't scratching, fancy mixing, intro/outros, it's room programming. It's line dances. It's playing most of the song out, because a lot of country crowds enjoy the whole song. It's a whole lot more than a tagged genre, you really have to understand the music. You want to feel the music with your customers... You want to be in love in one moment slow dancing and a little while later having the time of your life doing some crazy line dance...
You have to know WHEN to play the right songs, not just having a library of country songs and playing them by subgenre.. If any main genre was a "feel the crowd" genre more than another, it's country. If you want to know about being a country DJ, you really need to go to country DJ events and get a feel for the diversity of the crowd. Here, in Florida, I've heard everything from Gangnam Style, Pitbull, Britney Spears to Journey to even some top 40 hip hip on a country night.
One other thing, every "region" has its own flavor of country night, so here that kind of music might work well, but some places you play hip hop or top 40 and you might as well have just ripped their souls out... You really have to understand who you are playing for before you can just start blasting out random country music by labelled subgenre...
