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To: chasio649
Increasingly it is sung by people who were never there. Nashville and the Grand Ole Opry, to my eye anyway, pretend to be what they aren’t any more.

This is the essence of the fall of country music. It used to be the truth sung by those who lived it. It is now a counterfeit art form and has the appeal of a three-dollar bill.

10 posted on 09/02/2007 6:57:36 PM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

http://www.ridgewayopryhouse.com/

Good clean country fun and music every Sat night. $5.00 admission, free food, non-alcoholic drinks for spare change and the music is picked and played by those who know whereof they sing.


14 posted on 09/02/2007 7:03:46 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

It’s also more ‘rock’ than country these days too! Too bad, there are a few that have a twangy-country sound, but much has been co-opted by pop and non country Hollywood.

They need to get back to their blue-grass roots, IMO.


33 posted on 09/02/2007 8:07:38 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

Country music (the old original CM) was an offshoot of good Bluegrass, my favorite music.

If you go to a small bluegrass festival up in the mountains of east Tennessee, or listen to the few radio stations that play this up here, you’ll realize that traditional country and bluegrass are the same, there just might be an extra banjo or fiddle in it!!!


38 posted on 09/02/2007 8:18:54 PM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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