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The affect of rock music in country is becoming a lot more overt through the late 2000s and early 2010s as artists like Eric Church, Jason Aldean, and Brantley Gilbert have experienced good results; Aaron Lewis, former frontman for that rock group Staind, had a moderately profitable entry into country music in 2011 and 2012, as did Dallas Smith, fo