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.
Country gets closer to pop all the time.
The only current country singer I can think of
is Blake Shelton. Hate to see it.
LOL, I like this one.
Freedom Isn’t Free (It Costs a Buck Oh Five)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzW2ybYFboQ
I blame Garth Brooks.
“She got run over by a damned old train.”
Thank!
That’s my favorite Tom Petty tune. I didn’t mention it before because it doesn’t have the same “drunk & disorderly” theme as “Rebels.” LOL.
I was raised in Amarillo and that’s the
only song I ever heard that mentions it.
I was raised country and never heard of a single one of those. LOL
The albums he did with Mudcrutch were awesome.
“Just To See You Smile” by Tim McGraw
“Flyover States” by Jason Aldean (I listened to that one about 25 times on Election Night in 2016)
True. And before that, it was in 1944 when Bob Wills snuck a drum set onto the stage of the Grand Old Opry. It was the first time drums were ever played on the Opry, and Wills was never invited back to the Opry again.
But the dam was broken, and country moved closer to rock and roll.
“Flyover States” was my favorite song of 2010.
What used to be pop turned into angry rap and soulless dance music.
Some of those are obscure, but others were hits. "I Want to Be With You Always" was the number one song on the country-western charts the day I was born.
"Oakie Boogie" was recorded by a number of artists including Ted Heath & His Orchestra over in England. I find it amusing to hear an English act performing a dance tune that celebrates Oklahoma folkways.
The country song I remember hearing was “Room Full of Roses.”
Naturally I imagined a bedroom stuffed with flowers. LOL
This was a huge hit in Germany in late 1971-early 1972, and I imagine it scored in the UK as well, since that's where the singer hails from. However, it made no noise at all in the US. After its chart run, I had to wait until Youtube came along before I could hear it again.
Is This the Way to Amarillo?--Tony Christie
Lubbock is a rival of Amarillo’s, so it was funny
to hear “Happiness is Lubbock in my rear view mirror.”
A family friend had been a roommate of Mac Davis in college.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8naUYacJik
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