Most musicians hate music categories.
A number of artists have even taken up making up their own music categories. These made up categories often result in hilarious bewilderment on the part of the press and major commercial interests. Most music lovers I know hate categories as well. Chicago's very own noisy country rockers get plenty of press in Chicago for their skewering of old-time country music, but seldom mentioned are the lyrical depth and refracted philosophizing amidst the beer, steel guitar, and melodrama. Cowboy in Flames is about the powerless and confused.