It's about the only place a person might get to hear Loretta Lynn... or Ernest Tubb, or Lefty Frizzell, or...
Outsiders with expensive suits have "ruined" county music a bunch of times, usually with the help of county musicians having a hankering for their own expensive suits. Someone generally resuscitates it and starts the whole cycle over again.
Dave Dudley.
If you want to know what happened to country music, the story about Mike Huckabee getting kicked off a Nashville board because a powerful country music exec and his “husband” were offended by Mike’s politics should explain a lot.
I painted the home of a Nashville record producer, and became friends with him.
I listen to CM or talk radio at work while the crew slaved, my job is to schmooze customers for the next job, and supply material and the supervision.
He told me that the reason CM seems to have no Country in it is the “Pink Hand” took over all of the details. From backup singers, parties, drugs, choosing songs and styles. He said there are more lgbtQ’ers in Nashville than in Hollywood. An overstatement he admitted, but it drove him into a happier retirement AWAY from Tennessee.
It is simply a business where nearly everyone sold their souls, and the right to produce the music they envision.
Do you have Firefox? They have a radio addon extension that has three good old school country stations. Have it on right now and listen to it all the time.
It’s called “world wide radio”. Has whatever you want, rock, blues, bluegrass, Irish pub music, etc.
I have SiriusXM and listen to Bluegrass channel 62 all the time. To me it is the trade for real country music. If you ever have the chance to see Rhonda Vincent in person then do so. I love Bluegrass.
KDDD Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas.
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