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Is country music dead?
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| 05/16/2014
| Collin Raye
Posted on 05/16/2014 8:01:45 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
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”).
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:30:51 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: To Hell With Poverty
Billy Bragg??? Hes a hard core socialist folk singer from the U.K.! *spit*Aren't most of the "old timey," "Americana," "roots," and "alt-country" acts big lefties?
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:32:02 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
To: Fido969; GeronL; Revolting cat!
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:32:04 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: martin_fierro
GREAT!
Now I’ll have to Google translate BOTH acht and your tagline!
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:35:41 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: 5Madman2
Has anyone listened to what passes for ‘contemporary’ Christian music these days?
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:37:06 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: a fool in paradise
The Combat Kitty Got Loose...
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:38:20 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Fido969; GeronL; Revolting cat!
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:40:23 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: Colonel_Flagg
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:41:39 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: usconservative
Wind noise...
Must be why I’m glued to Rush all day...
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:43:13 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: txrefugee
Its final indignity was having winners of American Idol singing their version of country.Yellin' and screechin' and light shows!
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:44:21 PM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Boogieman
What a classic movie!
And then there’s Oh Brother... for REAL country music!
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:51:22 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: 5Madman2
Family forum?
If it can’t be said in 140 chrtrs kds wnt rd it.
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:52:42 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Lucas McCain
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.
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:53:38 PM PDT
by
Tammy8
To: Cinnamontea
I don't <A href="WEB.ADDRESS">WHAT YOU WANT HIGHLIGHTED</A> to post a link.
the code
I don't <A href="http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc70/tpjdmm/knock-knock.gif">know how</A> to post a link.
You do now!!
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posted on
05/16/2014 3:02:34 PM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: driftless2
...all new music today is crap....Bears repeating...
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posted on
05/16/2014 3:04:39 PM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
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posted on
05/16/2014 3:05:50 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: ExTxMarine
It seems not too many in this threads are watching Nashville on the tube...
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posted on
05/16/2014 3:06:21 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/16/2014 3:09:04 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: dfwgator
Stand by your man...
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posted on
05/16/2014 3:10:22 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Responsibility2nd
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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posted on
05/16/2014 3:10:30 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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