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That song by Backstreet Boys is NOT a country song
The Highway on Sirius ^ | Early evening | Guilt-free fan of Emmylou Harris

Posted on 05/16/2019 5:57:27 PM PDT by SamAdams76

For several weeks now, The Highway has been playing a song called "No Place" by Backstreet Boys and calling it a country song when it's really not.

Not that there is any lack of decent new country songs to play such as that "Rainbow" song by that girl whose name I can't remember and also "Prayed For You" by Matt Stell as well as "God's Country" by Blake Shelton. I even like that newcomer Gabby Barrett with that song about how she was dumped by her boyfriend and is now wishing that his new girlfriend will cheat on him like he cheated on her. Or something along those lines.

I know there's more important things to be talking about tonight but I figured I'd come here and put up a post in the "Bloggers and Personal" category because, I believe, this is why that category was created. So people can come here and post nonsense and other more serious-minded folk can ignore the "Bloggers & Personal" category altogether and spare themselves from drivel such as this.

But I should be so lucky. I just know some Freepers are going to come over here - to my Blogger and Personal space - and chastise me for putting up a bunch of nonsense about so-called country music. Also, they are going to go on about how country music today does not measure up to the days of George Jones, Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn. But I listen to that stuff too. I just don't hear it on the Highway, I go over to the Willie's Roadhouse station, which is pretty darn good by the way.

Anyhow, I'm posting the whole thing here so will not have to click through to my blog, where people pay big bucks to hear my opinions on things. I'm giving it up for free here on the Free Republic.

Country music. Not so bad overall. Even the new stuff. But Backstreet Boys? No way. That's not country.


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1 posted on 05/16/2019 5:57:27 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

If it don’t reference Momma, Prison, Trains or Trucks, it ain’t a country song.


2 posted on 05/16/2019 5:59:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SamAdams76

What?


3 posted on 05/16/2019 6:00:38 PM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: dfwgator

Or gittin drunk.


4 posted on 05/16/2019 6:00:46 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Be like Kendrick, Brendan, and Riley.)
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To: TheZMan
It's Bloggers and Personal category. I can post whatever I want here as long as it's within the rules of the Free Republic.

At some point, I'm going to post about my instant on-demand tankless hot water heater. Totally fascinated with that contraption. What will they think up next?

5 posted on 05/16/2019 6:06:04 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: dfwgator

“I was drunk the day my momma got out of prison”


6 posted on 05/16/2019 6:07:27 PM PDT by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: dfwgator

Good call.


7 posted on 05/16/2019 6:07:44 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: dynachrome

David Allan Coe...and I didn’t even have to pull up an Internet search.


8 posted on 05/16/2019 6:08:32 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: dfwgator

You don’t have to call me darlin’, darlin’.


9 posted on 05/16/2019 6:10:07 PM PDT by Califreak (If Obama had been treated like Trump the US would have been burnt down before Inauguration Day)
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To: SamAdams76

A little antidote in case of emergency while reading the thread. This one has a little of both kinds of music. Country and western.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1lhzi4uU8o


10 posted on 05/16/2019 6:11:24 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: SamAdams76
Murder on Music Row

Says it all.

11 posted on 05/16/2019 6:15:40 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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To: SamAdams76

ROFL!!!!!

LOL


12 posted on 05/16/2019 6:18:32 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: SamAdams76

“Don’t go breaking my heart” is a JAM! I’m really not a Backstreet Boys fan, but when that song came out last year, it rocked. Great comeback.


13 posted on 05/16/2019 6:20:33 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Isn't it funny that the very people who scream "My body, my choice" wants a say in your healthcare?)
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To: SamAdams76

What about “who says you cant go home” by Bon Jovi years ago?

It reached the charts in country.

It just seemed like a likable mellow ROCK song to me.

But i know almost NOTHING about what constitutes country.

I figure if a southerner is singing it and he’s singing about how his life is a ####ing mess, then it’s country :)


14 posted on 05/16/2019 6:20:45 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dfwgator
Or the subject of the greatest country song of all time — the Rodeo!

Amarillo By Morning

15 posted on 05/16/2019 6:20:48 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: SamAdams76

Much of what the “top 40” country station plays doesn’t seem country to me. My teenager calls it “hick-hop”. On Sirius, listen to Prime Country.


16 posted on 05/16/2019 6:25:35 PM PDT by Rio
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To: SamAdams76
I'm giving it up for free here on the Free Republic.

Whatta guy.

17 posted on 05/16/2019 6:26:30 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Rio

Bad rock with a fiddle. - Tom Petty


18 posted on 05/16/2019 6:28:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rio

Modern “Country and Western music” sucks. That’s all.


19 posted on 05/16/2019 6:30:52 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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To: dp0622
... if a southerner is singing it and he’s singing about how his life is a ####ing mess, then it’s country :)

LMAO. It’s either country or it’s Tom Petty. :)

Best “non-country country” song ...

Tom Petty — Rebels

20 posted on 05/16/2019 6:30:59 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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