Posted on 05/16/2014 8:01:45 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
30 years ago, Buck Owens had concisely complained about it.
Really, when R & R and the Brit Invasion almost killed the C & W sound, the Nashville producers went in another direction, using Chet Atkins as their 5-star general for development. It worked, they got rich but the soul of country music never recovered. Now it is just formula and investment..
If you use Pandora, you should create a station around the following artists...
Darrell Scott
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Tim O'Brien
Rubber Knife Gang
Dustin Bentall
Deryl Dodd
The Old 97's
Slaid Cleaves
Old Crow Medicine Show
The Avett Brothers
Runaway Planet
Redbird
Drive by Truckers
Turnpike Trubadors
Jason Isbell & the 400 unit
The Devil Makes Three
Mason Jennings
John Prine
The Wood Brothers
Alison Krause & Union Station
Robert Earl Keen
You won't be disappointed.
Oops! But worth saying twice!
+1
It hasn’t been the same since that youngster Floyd Cramer ruined it.
Acht Breaky Heart. Now THATS music!
I play pedal steel and lead guitar. Line dancers would request that monstrosity 3/4 times a night. First time we’d play it straight. Second time I’d play the solo backwards. Third time I’d play the solo in Chinese-sounding parallel fourths. Fourth time, I get the band to add an extra beat to the end of the solo. Then we’d watch all the line dancers run into each other!
“Watermelon Crawl” put me over the edge. Can’t even listen “Country” radio at all.
Maybe we should write a FReeper country song, we can save the genre!
possible titles:
My Viking Kitty Zotted Grandma
My Truck Went Fishing Without Me
Troll Got Zapped By Admin Moderator
Post Turtle President
She Got The Obama Phone, I Got The Tax Bill
I Remember When It Was A Free Country
It helps to know just who is ultimately behind the entire recorded music entertainment industry and what it is he intends to accomplish. Well, he appears as women most often but really, he isn’t feminine at all. He hardly hides himself at all anymore.
Dwight and Buck Owens “Streets of Bakersfield”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5P6zdlPJ34
And then there's Carrie Underwood, who in "Before He Cheats", goes on about her cheating boyfriend and how she destroys his pickup in revenge. Listen to the song while visualizing the reception that a song about a guy taking revenge on the property of a cheating girlfriend would get.
Too many of these singers are just losers and psychos.
I lost my shotgun in the lake but saved the beer.
I don’t like Rascal Flatts because that gal they have as a lead singer sounds a bit too much like a dude.
It All Went To Heck When Zombies Got The Vote
LOL that’s rude...
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