This WWII Marine is still performing, why isn’t he in any halftime shows? This was American music forty years ago, even an embittered old curmudgeon like me can’t watch it without getting misty eyed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEMT93yX2ZU
And this next link is his first big hit that stopped me in my tracks when I was 12 years old in 1956. Ray Price served in World War two and is still performing now, imagine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuOvllD8Baw
How on Earth The Cherokee Cowboy can keep standing up and walking out on stage after seeing what has happened to this country is beyond my understanding. Contemporary music? Contemporary noise is all it is.
The truth? Because everyone under the age of 65 would have run screaming from Jerry’s House. I could last maybe 30 seconds of geriatric country.
Country music in general is a bad bet. And by that I mean marketing suggests that more people have negative reactions to country music and country singers than any other genre including rap. I know that it holds true for most everyone I know. Check out some social networking sites and see just how many people put “Anything but country” under music. You’ll be surprised.