[miss marmelstein]

Now, why would you run away? I happen to very much like country music - but only the old stuff. Any kind of cross-over music drives me wild. When my husband and I drove across N.C. and Tennessee a few years ago, we could not find a station that played authentic country music or bluegrass. When I directed a lovely play that takes place in the South, I used country music between scenes.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, it has coarsened over the years along with the coarsening of morals. Today you're likely to hear about the pleasures of some questionable tryst if you tune in to the country hits of Nashville (which I live next door to, by the way, now). There are some exceptions; there are still paeans to patriotism and family and hard work and nature's wholesome pleasures and God. I have begun to delve into that genre. It's probably a bit low brow for you, but you might find this interesting: Rednecks Built America

[HiTech RedNeck]

PS this was a collaboration between me and Ronnie Houser. I wrote the words, and Ronnie Houser wrote the music and created and produced the performance. The truck picture on the You Tube, I created from a licensed image, split it in two, and used it as the cover art for a privately released album of the same name as the song.