Stations still tuning out Dixie Chicks

Dallas Morning News ^ | December 8, 2006 | KATHERINE YUNG

[SShultz460]

I sense the invisible hand at work here

[Dallas59]

How long before the socialist liberal friends and backers of the Dick-zy Chicks start claiming "musical racism"?

[Seruzawa]

The Grammies have been politically decided for years. Heck, I remember the year when that horrid song "Killing Me Softly" by Roberta Flack beat out such songs as "Stairway to Heaven" as "Best Song". They just had to have a black winner that year. Well, fine, but why not reward a good black performer? What a load of crap. I've ignored those stupid worthless awards ever since. They mean nothing especially since music appreciation is entirely subjective.

This award is just a load of political solidarity to reward the looney left.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

And they still get song of the year possbibility?

Yes Natalie, there really is a Santa Claus.

[DeaconBenjamin2]

Yes Natalie, there really is a Santa Claus.

But is there a sanity clause?

[1rudeboy]

In other news, Franco is still dead.

[sgtbono2002]

This makes the Grammy's into the joke I always thought it was.

The Nobel prize was exposed as crap when they gave one to Arafat and to Jimmy Carter, now the Grammy people are exposed for what they are.

5 nominations for an act that cant sell tickets to their performances.

Well I have stated here and in toher places that Country Music today is garbage anyway. Bring back George Jones.

[conservativehusker]

I will forever turn off any station that plays their music...

[mkjessup]

Well, so far in this thread I've seen references to the Dixie Slutpuppies, George Strait and George Jones.

What are the differences?

None of the Slutppuppies are named 'George'.

George Strait and George Jones play REAL country music.

[Gideon Reader]

How about Hank and Elvin Jones?

[1rudeboy]

George Michael doesn't play real country music, and he's a chick.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

"Bring back George Jones." Bob Wills is still the King.

[Bubba_Leroy]

How DARE those radio stations refuse to play songs just because their audiences don't want to hear them?

[mkjessup]

George Michael doesn't play real country music, and he's a chick.

George Michael just likes getting 'Whammed'. ;)

[CFC__VRWC]

Every single Drive By Media article wailing about the Dixie Chicks "conveniently" fails to mention the other reason country fans don't want to hear them. That reason, of course, is that the Chicks never pass up an opportunity to bash their fans as ignorant, racist, flag-waving hicks.

But mentioning that wouldn't fit into the the victim template they've created for the Dixie Chicks, now would it? Besides, the media attacks its customer base the same way, so to them, what's the big deal? And then they wonder why their stock prices tank and their newsrooms shrink.

[sgtbono2002]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh Haaaaaaaaahh

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

One of the most successful female country acts

They aren't country. They said they did not want to be country, they did not want any more "red-neck bambi killing hicks" fans, they preferred a small audience of "cool" people and we obliged.

If you are not country, your music doesn't get played on country stations. It is pretty simple really.

[sgtbono2002]

But-----George Jones is stil alive.

Not may of the old ones left and most of them are waaay past their prime. The new guys just arent getting it done.

[mkjessup]

Bob Wills is indeed still the King of Country Music, once you cross that ol' Red River (w/tip of the hat to the late Waylon Jennings who I'll bet is sitting in on some of the 'new' sessions upstairs ;)... I found it notable and appropriate that Bob Wills left his fiddle to noneother than Merle Haggard, who performed with Bob Wills and his band on their last album production in 1973. As I recall the story, Merle made it known that he really wanted 'in' on the session, and he was told "Merle, this kinda work only pays union scale" and Merle laughed and said "Union scale? Are you kidding? I'd pay THEM!" - and the universal agreement among the Playboys was that Merle was always a Texas Playboy at heart, if not with the actual band.

I have a copy of that actual final album 'Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys For The Last Time', and if you ever have the chance to pick it up, be SURE that the book is included with it, written by Charles R. Townsend, who wrote the biography of Wills "San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills" (1974) it is a wonderful read and there won't be any dry eyes by the time you're done with it.

They broke the mold after Bob Wills, and it was the right thing to do.