Stagecoach 2017 gets underway with the Blasters, Justin Townes Earle, Bailey Bryan and Cactus Blossoms
(LA Times Books)

A key question surfaces with the dawn of each new edition of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio: Just what is country music these days? As this year´s installment got underway Friday at the Empire Polo Field just a week after its bigger, older sibling Coachella, a variety of potential...