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Smile!

C

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How many Country stations are playing Uncle Kracker's song "Smile?" My local country, WSSL station added it. Songs like these make me want to listen to country more. It really doesn't sound very country though (but neither do a lot of the Faith, Shania, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, etc and they're played to death).

Any thoughts on the song??
 
It's a questionable song but fits into the country pop that's being played and he is in the same category of Kid Rock, if it sounds country enough they will play it.

I know of one country station in my area actually playing the Nickelback song "This afternoon" in rotation on their morning show a few times as it's a top 20 song on CMT Top 20 countdown!
 
If you follow "American Country Countdown", you know that this song sat around the bottom of the Top 40 for quite awhile before taking off. It's a pure pop tune that Country embraced anyway. Not the first time it happened, nor the last. It's attitude fits well. Ever since the late 1970s it seems to me there as been songs on Country that weren't Country. One of the greatest early examples was "Baby I'm Burnin'" by Dolly Parton, 1978. It's a Disco song. That's all it is. Just 'cause she was singing it doesn't change that fact. There is no "country" in the music, and only Country in the vocals because she's singing it.
 
A few country artists experimented with disco in the late 70s. Even whispering Bill Anderson has a disco sounding hit called "I can't wait any longer". It worked both ways, in that same era the Commodores crossed over to the country chart with "Sail On".

I might be the only one who heard anything country in it but I actually thought the Cranberries 1994 alternative hit "Linger" had a Tammy Wynette influence...especially the "i'm such a fool for you" part.

Getting back to "Smile"..it doesn't sound all that country but at the same time it blends right in with the pop sounding country currents. For some reason Uncle Kracker reminds me of this genrations Dr Hook..another pop act that crossed over to country. When I heard Uncle's first hit "Follow Me" in 2001 his voice and style reminded me of Dr Hook.
 
Jay F said:
A few country artists experimented with disco in the late 70s.
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Though not a disco artist per se, the pop/rock band Exile found bigger success in country after "Kiss You All Over."

Jay F said:
I might be the only one who heard anything country in it but I actually thought the Cranberries 1994 alternative hit "Linger" had a Tammy Wynette influence...especially the "i'm such a fool for you" part.
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I wonder if any country stations ever played that "Justified & Ancient" song Tammy did with The KLF.
 
Lionel Richie had a few crossovers onto country with "Stuck On You" and "Deep River Woman," though that song featured Alabama.
 
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