Posted on 05/16/2014 8:01:45 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
As a platinum-selling country music artist and, more importantly, a lifelong fan of the genre, I’d like to send out this heartfelt plea to the gatekeepers of the industry:
Enough already.
I’d like to think that I am expressing what nearly every artist, musician and songwriter (with perhaps a few exceptions) is thinking when I contend that the Bro’ Country phenomenon must cease.
It has had its run for better or worse and it’s time for Nashville to get back to producing, and more importantly promoting, good singers singing real songs. It’s time for country music to find its identity again before it is lost forever.
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But as someone who grew up loving and being forever affected by the true greats of country music, I simply have to offer up this plea to the Nashville country music industry to reclaim the identity and poetic greatness that once was our format. The well-written poetic word of the country song has disappeared.
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Willie Nelson once wrote in his early song, "Shotgun Willie," that “you can’t make a record if you ain’t got nothing to say.” Apparently, that’s not the case anymore.
Disposable, forgettable music has been the order of the day for quite a while now and it’s time for that to stop.
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Why.... they ain't even BLACK!!
True, but I just don’t feel right dropping the F-Bomb here.
While I have no problem with salty language, and honed that skill over more than 30 years in the military and police work, it falls into the time and place category.
This is not the place.
Just an explanatory comment. Not coming back at you or lecturing in any way.
No problem - I agree with you.
The problem with country music is that it was never translated into other languages.
*heh*
Think about that one.
Mexican Country.
Here's a good one: Good Ol' Boys (by Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley)
Oops! I meant to direct posts 178 and 308 to you as the thread host. Nevertheless, they’re intended for everyone on the thread. Oh well, at least CinnamonTea got pinged! ;)
You could find country and western oldies if you were in Houston and tuned into FM97.1. Every day all day long, it’s great!
It has been several years ago that I turned the Country Music channel on and the first video that came on was Exile - I Want to Kiss You Allover. Don’t get me wrong, that is good music but I knew right then they were expanding the definition of country music. It’s been down hill every since.
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I still enjoy the morning "Farm Report" ☺
I grew up listening to country music on the radio in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s and what I hear today (briefly, because I cannot stand more than a minute of it) is not what I think of as country and western music. Fake and formulaic.
It’s a shame that “novices” might actually believe that what they’re hearing is C&W.
It has basically been rock with a southern accent for a long time now.
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Link to Country Legends 97.1 in post 308.
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