Leaves In Autumn (live 1994)
Posted on 04/08/2014 9:32:32 PM PDT by This Just In
Country music has been very good to Collin Raye, and the chart topper returned the favor many times over with hits like Love, Me and My Kind of Girl.
Perhaps that's why Raye dedicates part of his new autobiography A Voice Undefeated to what he calls the genre's biggest problem. Today's country songs, he writes, too often lack the "real life, real love and real loss" qualities that capture the best the genre once offered.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
You guys need a dose of Gary Allan and then let me turn you on to Jason Isbel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdwnGG29Upw&list=PLCw7uifZvD5vtxDgpFsXPeIiAyWjtY0PX
You guys need a dose of Gary Allan and then let me turn you on to Jason Isbel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdwnGG29Upw&list=PLCw7uifZvD5vtxDgpFsXPeIiAyWjtY0PX
Leaves In Autumn (live 1994)
Livin’ the life that Sam Phillips encouraged Johnny Cash to lead just about killed him (and yeah, that was Sam’s advice to make the songs better).
I’m envious of your collection, and that doesn’t include your guitars.
Going to check out your links now.
Hey, Doc, what’s your home address, and when do you go out of town with the family? Do you have any guard dogs? Security system? Do you leave your gear laying around the house?
Not that I’m planning to visit you at all and try to steal anything.
:^)
I’ve been dabbling in the genre writing stuff myself... but honestly, I don’t think the writers are having the problems. It’s the food chain. They want the same old shallow stereotyped stuff. Don’t make the audience exercise more than 2 or 3 brain cells. Pickup truck + country road + unmarried partner + liquor + night + sex = Great Hits Of 2013.
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra, you have my deepest respect. I enjoyed that swampy feel on the Shce’ track. I can see (hear) why the engineer and producer wanted to keep the first pass. Nice playing on the Zaza track as well.
Yes, Ben Ficklin, I have seen the benders in action.
Love Joe’s music. Chesnutt’s great as well.
I enjoy some of Gary Allan’s songs. That Isbel track is good.
Well, you know the drill. You have the corporate ppl, and songwriters who wish to write hits and/or write songs that go deeper than “sitting on a tailgate”, and, “drivin’ down a dirt road”. You also have the artists who want the, “Country Girl (Shake it for me)”, songs, etc.
The media side of the industry pushes the “new” country, but there is a market despite the media and hype for good country music. There’s a reason why Alison Krauss is the #1 Grammy Award winning female artist in the history of music, let alone country music. And George Strait? Who has topped his long hits list?
Nameless geeks with naughty minds seem to be running the show. If someone like George Strait stepped up to create his own end-to-end outfit with more artists than just himself, he might be able to help perpetuate the classy stuff for another generation, just thinking. But again maybe the dirty minded geeks would do all they could to turn on him.
bttt
Security system? Yes,,, and a 120 pound Briard.
Thank you very much! I know I could have done better on the Sche’ track though! There’s a time error that drives me crazy!
Playing in pain?
“Playing in pain?”
Naw. Just playing in a tuning I’d never used before. Made the tuning right before playing. 3 low strings in D tuning, high 3 in G tuning.
Scordatura to the max. I meant the comment on the typo, silly :-)
Sorry! I forgot I made that typo. Lots of online activity yesterday.
Off the cuff, I’m remembering his collab. with Chesney, ‘Shiftwork’.
I guess he could try to influence more of the YgenXers by collaborating with younger artists, but regardless....Strait has been producing chart topping hits for over 30 years. That’s an incredible accomplishment as well as a testimony of the popularity of good ol country music.
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