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Country At a Crossroads?

Jesus Christ, I hate country music with a burning passion but a lot of you are really revealing yourselves with your rampant condescension towards country music's primary audience. As someone who lives in a city where one of the top music stations is the country station, and two of the other top music stations play crunchier country on occasion (WDRV and WXRT), I beg you all to knock it off with the stereotyping and seething mockery. Not everyone fits into the stereotypes and some of those who do aren't as dumb as you think they are.
 
macattack said:
Jesus Christ, I hate country music with a burning passion but a lot of you are really revealing yourselves with your rampant condescension towards country music's primary audience. As someone who lives in a city where one of the top music stations is the country station, and two of the other top music stations play crunchier country on occasion (WDRV and WXRT), I beg you all to knock it off with the stereotyping and seething mockery. Not everyone fits into the stereotypes and some of those who do aren't as dumb as you think they are.
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Thank you for this! I've been a country music fan since my mid-'70s college days, and I've gotten a hard time about it from everyone from family to work colleagues ever since. Living in New England for all but three of those years hasn't helped. Here's a video for a "crunchier country" song in which the singer actually converts a typical urban musical sophisticate, but I'm afraid it's pure fantasy for me.
 
TheBigA said:
R&B never played it either, and she's a black woman. You're overthinking this.



There's no controversy, unless you invent one. If you approach this as Luke did with the innocence of a 5 year old driving in the car with his father and hearing the song, it makes more sense. It's only when you layer all of the prejudices adults place on things that it becomes an issue. It's just a song. That's the genius of a show like The Voice, where the judges hear the singer with their backs turned. They can't see the person singing. They just hear the voice.
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Correct on all counts. R&B didn't play "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman because R&B/Hip-Hop stations aren't a place for Folk music. They also never played Joan Armatrading or Richie Havens who were black Folk music artists.
 
b-turner said:
I don't recall. That was what, 1980 or early 1981? I was in an isolated market so I don't know how it did elsewhere but my audience including lots of oil field workers liked it.
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"Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman was a Top 10 Billboard "Hot 100" hit in 1988. Her next Top 10 hit was a similar sounding song, "Give Me A Reason", in 1996.
 
Yes, back on page 3 I posted:
b-turner said:
I'm mixing two songs and artists and now correctly recall: Fast Cars was serviced Top 40. The song I was confused about was Terri Gibbs, Somebody's Knocking. That one was pushed country.
 
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