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COUNTRY MUSIC HAS LOST IT'S WAY

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jharmon

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Interesting watching CMA's last night.
Def Leppard, The Wailors, Robert Plant of Led Zepplin, Rapper Lil Wayne, Kid Rock, Eagles (well they're really okay)
Where was Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts, Dixe Chicks, Merle Haggard, etc.
Chesney thinks it cool having the above mentioned on the stage.
Whatever happened to the perfect country song, according to David Allen Coe.
Country seems to be morphing into something, but it's not country.

Hank and Lefty and Ernest and Marty and Porter and Jim and Patsy are turning over in their graves.
 
Doest thou not know Toby boycots the CMA's? Hasn't hurt him yet. I think he made 47 million last year.
 
Flatts was there.
Did you really expect to see the Dixie Chicks... maybe rocking the "Obama" sticker.
Merle... yeah, he usually makes the show... or not.
Kid Rock... best friends with Hank Jr.
Hank just called and said to get that kid from Detroit off the stage.
The Wailors? Maybe AJ shouldn't have done 5:00 somewhere with that Jimmy Buffett?
I guess you dislike that "black" guy, Darius, too huh?

Country music is doing just fine. Even with the newcomers.
 
jharmon said:
Country seems to be morphing into something, but it's not country.
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and in the early 1960's, the outcry was that (gasp) DRUMS were being played on country tunes.
while I'm not a fan of Kid Rock, I understand this is all part of a natural growth process.
and...oh yeah...it's show business. none of us are gonna like all of it. and quite honestly, some crap gets thru.

listen to the lyrics of most tunes: the heart of country is just fine...and beating quite nicely
 
Chris,

Gerry was having a discussion on air about wearing black "blue" jeans. In or out.
What was the verdict. The last I heard only "wanna be country music fans" still
wear them. They are out. Do ya know?
 
Whoa ------ better return mine tomorrow. According to the 15 year old daughter they are in? I am ruined.

Nock
 
jharmon said:
Interesting watching CMA's last night.
Def Leppard, The Wailors, Robert Plant of Led Zepplin, Rapper Lil Wayne, Kid Rock, Eagles (well they're really okay)
Where was Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts, Dixe Chicks, Merle Haggard, etc.
Chesney thinks it cool having the above mentioned on the stage.
Whatever happened to the perfect country song, according to David Allen Coe.
Country seems to be morphing into something, but it's not country.

Hank and Lefty and Ernest and Marty and Porter and Jim and Patsy are turning over in their graves.
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I'm in Bluegrass these days so I'll take the Chicks and Robert Plant, before you say anything listen to Long Journey Home on the Krauss/Plant CD. Plant's band mate, John Paul Jones performs and produces Bluegrass http://www.bighassle.com/red/uncleearl/UncleEarl_JPJ_Interview.htm.

Toby Keith was decent in his early days, everything else has been a sequel to Who's Your Daddy. Rascal Flatt is listenable and didn't mind playing them over and over. But I will be happy to never, ever play a Kenny Chesney song again. Don't get me wrong, there is talent. But I'm sick of the same song:

We did this.
We did that.
Wasn't it great.
Gee, if we can only do it again
Drinking beer in a closet in Mexico.

The Miss Congenialtiy award goes to Shania Twain for the horrific Up! and I'm Gonna Getcha Real Good. A Kenny Chesney song and one of those Shania musical cheese moments in power rotation was hell.

Unlike like The Dude, I like the f***in' Eagles! Also, a plug for Merle Haggard, old school and Bluegrass.
 
Country music left it's base a very long time ago. I don't even listen to it, it's nothing but watered down pop.
 
ricksegers said:
All you have is what the Statlers Brothers sang about 30 plus years ago.."Nobody wants to be country. Everybody wants to go pop."
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The Statler Brothers are phonies. Everyone knows they ripped off Lester "Roadhog" Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys!
 
Yeah so what? Dylan ripped off Woody Guthrie. Th Beatles ripped off Buddy Holly. Elvis ripped off somebody.

IMO, modern country music needs another wave of Steve Earle's, Foster & Lloyds, Yoakams, and that kind of thing.
 
never cared at all about steve earle,..but yoakam..right on,..i don't think country has been around since the days of randy travis..the eighties resurgence of back to basics..so to speak..speaking of country way back..remember marty brown ?..all over radio back then as i recall..disappeared like so many others used up by record companies..he's playing a really small dive out on dickerson road this weekend..however you want to discribe country in todays world..we'd all know it if we heard it...it's just not on any station in town..MHO
 
Marty Brown, heck yes. Met him when he was touring Wal Marts years ago. I have both(I think he did two for MCA) of MCA CDs and one he did for Hightone. I think he has some new music out.

Every Now and Then is one of my favorite songs.
 
stod said:
Marty Brown, heck yes. Met him when he was touring Wal Marts years ago. I have both(I think he did two for MCA) of MCA CDs and one he did for Hightone. I think he has some new music out.

Every Now and Then is one of my favorite songs.
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The pride of Maceo, Kentucky. Brown received national attention when 48 Hours did a program on Country Music. Brown was living on the streets looking for his break. An A/R person saw the piece and gave him a contract. He had talent and was critically acclaimed but everything went wrong. The last time I saw him perform was karaoke night at the Executive Inn Owensboro, The Time Out Lounge.
 
stod said:
IMO, modern country music needs another wave of Steve Earle's, Foster & Lloyds, Yoakams, and that kind of thing.
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I think there is someone like that right now who is surprisingly getting a lot of radio airplay: Zac Brown. This guy came out of nowhere (Georgia, actually) with music that sounds fresh and unpolished, and is getting great acceptance from radio and music fans.

I'm also very surprised at how many radio stations are playing Jamey Johnson. This guy is countrier than Earle, Foster, or Yoakam, and he just entered the Top 10.

These are people who write their own music. No need to re-popularize past artists when there are new people with the same talent getting started now.
 
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