Country Music Lowers Your Kid’s IQ

A Prestigous Weekly Journal ^ | 9/21/01 | DENNISD'ANTONIO

[riley1992]

But what does it do to adults

I'd tell you, counselor, but you couldn't handle it.

[dead]

Actually, though this article is a goof from the Weekly World News, they are not totally wrong. If you listen to any of the country acts they named, you will lose IQ points. There is horrendously bad country music out there. Too often these days, country music is bad Backstreet Boys with a banjo thrown in. But there are tons and tons of great country music:

Junior Brown (the greatest electric guitarist ever in any genre), Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton (her new bluegrass stuff is poetry, as opposed to her crappy pop hits of the 80's), Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Lyle Lovett, Alison Krauss, Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson (his new "Austin Sessions" CD is a masterpiece), BR5-49.

Plus, the old classics (Eddy Arnold, Hank, Ernest Tubb, Patsy Cline, Doc Watson, Jimmie Rodgers, Chet Atkins) won't lower anybody's IQ.

But the most important question is - Where the hell is Bat Boy?

[Lady GOP]

Oh man...some funny ones :)

[CIBvet]

... Bluegrass .... great for driving.

Also excellent for cleaning around your house !!

[CIBvet]

Kinky Freidman ... the Groucho Marx of Country Music.

[CIBvet]

"Junior Brown (the greatest electric guitarist ever in any genre)"

I'm a huge Jr Brown fan, BUT, obviously you have never heard Albert Lee(NOT the British Bluesman) play. Check out MCA's album release they did on him in their 1980's series, "Masters of the Steel String Guitar."

Any of the cuts will do, but I'm especially moved by 'T-Bird to Las Vegas' for it's sheer drive, amazing melodic creativity & complexity, and complete virtuosity.

It's true to say that Albert lacks a certain 'Star' quality (w/ looks akin to Lyle Lovett before LL got trendy) but as a guitarist/instrumentalist, in the genre of RnR, Country(where todays BEST true RnR is played) and Jazz, Albert Lee has no equal. If you haven't heard of him you're in for a real treat. His 'pedal steel ' technique on a Tele sans any 'hardwear' tricks/alternations is simply beyond phenomenal.

MHO of course.

That being said, I'll stand in line at my very first chance to catch Jr.B's fireworks up close and personal.

[BobbyK]

"If the Phone Don't Ring, Baby, You'll Know It's Me."

"I generally despise country music, but if this is the same one I've heard (on non-country radio), it's one of my favorites."

So you just go where you go and do what you do and be who you want to be, but when she burns you again and your phone doesn't ring, baby it's me ... Mary Chapin Carpenter.
From You Never Had It So Good.

[parsifal]

He hates hick music with a passion."

Ooohhh! I know where he is coming from. I am in a hard spot. I like Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Hank Snow, Jimmy Rogers type of country but barfalot on the current stars. Country music can recover if it returns to the older type music. New guys and gals are just marketing tools.

[Redcloak]

Oh my goodness!! This is horrible! First bin Laden on the loose and now Bat Boy?!?

(I'm heading for my backyard shelter. I just hope the cannibals next door don't spot me.)

[riley1992]

Some great new Bluegrass is Nickel Creek. They are amazing.

[maxwell]

New guys and gals are just marketing tools.

For the most part, I agree with you... I do like my Tim McGraw and my Toby Keith though. "How d'ya like me NOW!"

[cynicom]

Maybe this idiot has forgotten who started rock and roll and where it came from. Elvis Presley was as big a "hick" as there ever was and he sold his gyrations to all the city slicks and made a fortune off them.

[maxwell]

I dig Jeff Carson's new tune "Real Life" as well... What's the name of that female singer who does the new one about "angels in waiting"?

[parsifal]

A lot of the blame are the homogenized country stations that play crap 24/7. There is plenty enough good country music out there, but you don't hear it. When's the last time you heard Doc Watson on your local KRNK (K-Redneck) station? Or Elton Britt? Somebody will start "Fox-ing" em one of these days.

[Marylander]

Don't believe the results of any psychological study without independent replication. Since the beginning of it's involvement in politics and social issues, psychology has been woven through and through with both intentional fraud and incidental alteration of data.

[Marylander]

it's=its

[ErnBatavia]

and a real one....."I made her the queen of my doublewide trailer" (with the polyester curtains and the redwood deck....

[riley1992]

That is not ringing a bell with me. What else does the song say?

[Landru]

"'They're Billy Ray Cyrus, Faith Hill, Clint Black, Randy Travis, Garth Brooks fans - and their children scored, on average, 10 points lower on standard IQ tests than 500 6-year-olds whose parents are rock 'n' roll junkies,' said Dr. Solett."

There're some who'd insist the names above are not "Country Music;" rather, they're the replacement for bubble gum music as provided by the PC crowd who usurped Nashville.

What's interesting is the fact this genius seems to have missed remarking on the magnificent contributions by the "Rap Artists" who're *infesting* the airwaves today.
I'd think listening to that crap would have the same effect as a full-blown lobotomy; which assumes there were a brain present to lobotomize.

Of course, there I go again.
Upsetting the "sensitive", re-distributionists running amok hither & fro'.

geshhhhh.