I think Keith is a great musician and guitarist. I like his style because it's a more rocked up version of country. However most of the die hard country musicians look at his style of country the same way a lot of guitarist look at "nu" metal and call it nu country. Even with that said, I still like him no matter what anybody says. He can really burn it up on a guitar. I also like Brad Paisley a lot too. He still burnes it up on the guitar, but his style is closer to traditional country than Keith's.