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, Id like to send out this heartfelt plea to the gatekeepers of the industry:
Enough already.
Id 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 its time for Nashville to get back to producing, and more importantly promoting, good singers singing real songs. Its 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 cant make a record if you aint got nothing to say. Apparently, thats not the case anymore.
Disposable, forgettable music has been the order of the day for quite a while now and its time for that to stop.
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The awards shows don’t get it right. That’s industry handshakes for the cameras.
Country, R&B, and R&R were rejected by the music publishing industry in post war America. BMI took up publishing the songs that ASCAP refused to.
There is music out there that would be accepted by the market if it wasn’t shut out by the monopoly industry.
Just because the media influenced culture doesn’t listen to it doesn’t mean you can’t listen to it.
Got to work for it. Or else fall back on mainstay recordings by now deceased performers. But even then, don’t stick to just the “top 10 hits”. Different reasons this or that song, artist, or label didn’t climb the charts (including payola or even just stiff chart competition or poor distribution). If it’s “new” to you, then consider it to be new music. Sometimes even the charts agree (it can take 2 years or more for a song to become a “hit”).
Aren't most of the "old timey," "Americana," "roots," and "alt-country" acts big lefties?
Achy Breaky Truck PING!
GREAT!
Now I’ll have to Google translate BOTH acht and your tagline!
Has anyone listened to what passes for ‘contemporary’ Christian music these days?
The Combat Kitty Got Loose...
Gonna Have Me A Yard Sale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le6KBw75vOo&list=ALBTKoXRg38BDbkUUCwPTG86xpL_SAU7Oq&index=5
Leaves In Autumn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDQ-Cy6yNI&list=ALBTKoXRg38BDbkUUCwPTG86xpL_SAU7Oq&index=2
Cookin Chicken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KjbYxYvoNw
I can't find the letter he got from Nixon in the 1970s but here's one from Johnny Cash in 1958.
AMEN!
Wind noise...
Must be why I’m glued to Rush all day...
Yellin' and screechin' and light shows!
What a classic movie!
And then there’s Oh Brother... for REAL country music!
Family forum?
If it can’t be said in 140 chrtrs kds wnt rd it.
Sad thing is I liked Garth Brooks’ early music...then he announced he was going to sing what he wanted to instead of what he was “told” to sing. I bought the first album he came out with after that announcement- I couldn’t even listen to the whole thing...trashed it.
Bears repeating...
agreed
It seems not too many in this threads are watching Nashville on the tube...
Rawhide!
Give me Slim Bryant and the Wild Cats anyday. He passed away a few years ago at 102 years of age. He used to have a regular show on KDKA radio back in the 1930’s here in Pittsburgh and later on, WDTV (and then KDKA-TV) from the late 1940’s and on for many years. I also like Johnny Cash, my favorite song, “One Piece At A Time.”
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