Posted on 11/03/2014 6:48:50 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
....Brandy Clark, an openly gay artist who sings, among other things, about pot-smoking housewives, had almost given up on becoming an artist herself, despite writing hits for The Band Perry, Miranda Lambert and others. But her debut album, "12 Stories," which peaked at number 23 on Billboard's Top Country chart, took her on a slow-burning path to this year's nomination for new artist of the year at the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday.....
"I feel so fortunate to be in a time where I am embraced completely as who I am and I don't have to hide who I am in any way," Clark said. "I hope that we've broken some boundaries and things are changing. I feel very included in the country music community."
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That’s some good music.
Not much future or present in poor rural white people singing about their dead mule.
Sure is....pure old school country.
Jason Isbel’s Southwestern album is damn good too but I wouldn’t classify him as country. Kinda a folksinger but the entire album cuts you directly to the bone....just brutal lyrics.
I like some Gary Allan as well. Specifically these 2 songs....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Xr67jp1Fo
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0txLj2VJlag
Gimme Johnny Cash night and day.
Amen to that and throw in some Kristofferson.
I grew up on Dylan and Beatles, But a good Country Alternative is ‘AMERICANA’. This station plays it http://radionb.com/knbt
And if you’re into the ‘ROOTS’ of this, this Guy is the BEST!
http://radionb.com/podcasts/knbtfm/tom-gillams-cosmic-power-hour
Sorry about the ad.
yeah that one always makes me smile.....as far as patriotic stuff, this is my favorite.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzOn6GqNFdk
cool tune...I have heard of him but never seen or heard his songs.
On Sixty Minutes Blake Shelton was asked about complaints that it all sounded alike. He went off into the “we sing about stuff we do like drinking etc”. People aren’t complaining about the subject matter of the songs. People believe it sounds like all the artists use the same studio musicians and the same back up singers. The DO sound just alike.
I stopped listening to country music in the 90s. I’m starting to do open mic nights and I sing only the old stuff.
It isn't that there aren't any good country musicians out there. Its that they aren't on the playlists. What is on the playlists mostly isn't country.
Yeah, I know. There are typically 20 to 30 songs on the play list. If a station follows “guidelines”, not rules, and plays only 23 minutes an hour of commercials and 5 minutes of news and weather and traffic, that leaves 31 minutes an hour for music. At 2 /12 minutes a song it comes to 12 songs an hour. Add in an oldie every now and then and it’s hard to get a song played.
Plus, all the studios want what they call polished “radio songs”. Songs that the herd will follow. I read where Lee Ann Womack left he big labels because she wants to play the music she grew up singing. She said being a country star was not what she thought it would be. She went to Sugar Hill Records. If you want to hear some good music, that’s a label that has it. Not much airplay though.
yeah that one will choke you up good. West Point glee club and trace Atkins did that one right...you seen this one? It is another great trace atkins tune.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJO7lJIxG10
exactly...nobody plays or seems to write the classic ¾ time sad country songs anymore…...so here is a song that says it all...enjoy....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFygQlsZ3-Y
BTW this guy wrote George Strait’s song “give it away” and had the song of the year with this hit a few years back..”In Color” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYGwxf1gCC4
Ahhh Jamey Johnson!! There is are so many fab country musical talents that don’t get played for every stupid Florida/Georgia Line that does. I’m a big fan of Pat Green, Jack Ingram, The Mavericks, and several others. While they had some commercial success, they never fit the mold for radio. What they churn out is so different than the robotic “I got drunk and she wants to dance” drunk, 20 something year old, anemic drivel that gets airplay today.
I’ve seen Pat Green out on the golf course at Fossil Creek in FTW and saw him play at BillyBobs and I saw Jamey at BillyBobs twice...what a show! I even got my mother-in-law tickets to see Jamey a few weeks back at his last show before he goes back into the studio to cut his next album. His last show was at Windstar up in Oklahoma. She fell in love with him.
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