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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They'll have 45 Cent (that's Nickelback with Curtis Jackson...)
I thought about that. She's right.
So do you play both kinds....”Country AND Western”?
Now you’ve done it...
I’m stuck on youtube listening to all the greats, who knows how many hours I’ll be there.
Thanks, I’m loving it.
Who’s Gonna Fill their Shoes - George Jones
You know this old world is full of singers
But just a few are chosen to tear your heart out when they sing
Imagine life without ‘em, all your radio heroes
Like the outlaw that walks through Jesse’s dream
No, there’ll never be another Red-Headed Stranger
A Man in Black and Folsom Prison Blues
The Okie from Muskogee or Hello Darling
Lord, I wonder who’s gonna fill their shoes
Who’s gonna fill their shoes? Who’s gonna stand that tall?
Who’s gonna play the Opry and the Wabash Cannonball?
Who’s gonna give their heart and soul to get to me and you?
Lord, I wonder, who’s gonna fill their shoes?
God bless the boys from Memphis, Blue Suede Shoes and Elvis
Much too soon he left this world in tears
They tore up the Fifties, old Jerry Lee and Charlie
And Go Cat Go still echoes through the years
You know the heart of country music still beats in Luke the Drifter
You can tell it when he sang, “I saw the light”
Old Marty, Hank and Lefty why I can feel them right here with me
On this Silver Eagle rolling through the night
Who’s gonna fill their shoes? Who’s gonna stand that tall?
Who’s gonna play the Opry and the Wabash Cannonball?
Who’s gonna give their heart and soul to get to me and you?
Lord, I wonder, who’s gonna fill their shoes?
Yes I wonder, who’s gonna fill their shoes?
I used to be into country music. Got out of it about the time Garth came in. As much as I like music, our local fm channels are garbage here. DJ that talk all the time over the music, tons of ads, and every song no longer than 3 minutes....
The DJ has the most amazing country oldies record collection that I've ever heard:
One can only become so decadent, before the decay dissolves into nothingness. At one time I thought LG was the tipping point, but I was wrong, it's Miley. There is nothing possible in terms of decadence after Miley, short of pure porn.
I’m don’t really know any of the older country that people are referring to, but I agree most ‘country’ today falls under the genre of douche country (a term coined by the morning show I listen to). The only exception that immediately comes to mind is the Zac Brown Band. I’m surprised no ones mentioned them yet, since they stand out so much from other “country” music artists.
Streets of Bakersfield is one of my favorites.
Thanks for posting.
Your post reminded me of something else I figured out around 1998. That was when I was in my daughter’s high school gym waiting for basketball practice to end. On the bleachers, CD’s were scattered everywhere next to portable players. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM was home recorded. That was when I realized recorded music was dead.
And as far as I’m concerned, the IPod killed recorded music.
Which is why people enjoy GOOD live music these days. And I think quality live music will continue to thrive, but with stuff like uTorrent, and the attitude toward recorded music, I think the only way people will make money in recorded music is going to be in commercial jingles, etc.
Live performanc will be where it is at, at least as a real income source for the performers themselves. Kinda like professional sports.
The same thing has happened to “Contemporary Christian Music”. The auto-tune pap of K-LOVE instead of lyrics and instruments and voice combining to create something worth listening to...
I didn't know Justin Bieber had joined Rascal Flatts ... go figure.
Yes. Yes we do. :-)
I remember when Dwight’s “Guitars, Cadillacs” came out.
Everybody loved that record, even folks who weren’t into country dug it.
RAWHIDE!
It's all I listen to, except on Sunday afternoons when it morphs into some sucky NPR like thing (but then I'm usually napping anyway).
It's out of American University (believe it or not) so there's no commercials.
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