Posted on 05/16/2014 8:01:45 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
As a platinum-selling country music artist and, more importantly, a lifelong fan of the genre, I’d like to send out this heartfelt plea to the gatekeepers of the industry:
Enough already.
I’d like to think that I am expressing what nearly every artist, musician and songwriter (with perhaps a few exceptions) is thinking when I contend that the Bro’ Country phenomenon must cease.
It has had its run for better or worse and it’s time for Nashville to get back to producing, and more importantly promoting, good singers singing real songs. It’s time for country music to find its identity again before it is lost forever.
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But as someone who grew up loving and being forever affected by the true greats of country music, I simply have to offer up this plea to the Nashville country music industry to reclaim the identity and poetic greatness that once was our format. The well-written poetic word of the country song has disappeared.
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Willie Nelson once wrote in his early song, "Shotgun Willie," that “you can’t make a record if you ain’t got nothing to say.” Apparently, that’s not the case anymore.
Disposable, forgettable music has been the order of the day for quite a while now and it’s time for that to stop.
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Nashville Skyline is one of the best country music records, ever. And Dylan owed its’ success to Johnny Cash.
Don’t go dissin’ Dylan. Amazing songwriter who has had numerous phases of his career. Can’t sing but one of the two best songwriters ever IMHO.
Yep, that was a good song. I kinda liked that one.
Question: Does Florida Georgia Line qualify as country music? Dunno why, but I kinda like those guys.
I remember back then, too. Dwight was playing the same LA clubs as punk rockers like X, and the punks were into Dwight’s wild hillbilly Bakersfield sound.
The impact of the “Bakersfield Sound” cannot be understated, it even influenced The Beatles.
S/b Overstated, not understated.
No doubt. I have some Sons of the Pioneers where they make frequent mention of "darkies". Makes me laugh every time I hear it.
I've been vindicated!
All these years, never could get in to the GB craze when it was really crazy.
Faron Young, Ferlin Huskey and George Jones for me!
Country music, if not dead, is on life support, and they are about to unplug the ventilator. Except for Strait I don’t know what gets played on radio. They have run off Alan Jackson, and others who were real country. Now, all we have a pretty-boys who sing pop. It’s gone-gone-gone. The dog has barked and the bird has flown. Like Lucky Ned’s gang gone…..your $50 gone, ……the whiskey, seized in evidence…gone. (taken from Rooster Cogburn (jeff Bridges) in TRUE GRIT).
One of Johnny Paycheck's early Lil Darlin’ classics, "The Real Mr. Heartache”:
Buck Owens is great. He has done a lot for Bakersfield.
How did he know? That song obviously isn’t a focus group tested jingle!
Billy Bragg??? He’s a hard core socialist folk singer from the U.K.! *spit*
Just careless.
For a second there, I thought you said Nickleback. To which I would have responded, "So You're the guy."
Punk can have a lot in common with old school country
Mike Ness
Doing Dylan
http://youtu.be/EH2M1JGJcM0
My favorite Ness solo song
But what this thread needs is some Wayne “the Train” Hancock
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