I think there is a huge difference between country and country pop, and clearly KC/TM is country pop.  Regardless, we love GPN for THEIR music and if this is the route chosen to promote the band, so be it.  Honestly, I loathe country pop and love alt-country.  And even still seeing KC on stage with GP this summer was pretty great.

I think the real sadness here is just the fact that the band is growing and changing.  When your roots are from Vermont, your early day fans are from that area too and we all tend to be a little small town.  So I think we just sad to think that the waterfront shows might have a new demographic.  I remember my first Dave Matthews concert.  It was spectacular, and then years later it was a crowd of screaming teenagers and quite dreadful.  And we are also with faced with realizations that as the band grows, small intimate New Year's shows might be extinct.  

I don't think of it as selling out.  Though I do think it was a business decision that will enable them to keep doing what they are doing for years to come.

For me personally, there is something pure about undiscovered bands.  Being from Vermont, this aspect of GPN allured me and is something I am now sacrificng.  And losing Cat at the same time taboot just well it just blows.

Still a fan. Just a little sad.  But congrats to the band I think they've really hit the big time.