"Y'all take it from an ol' Country doctor ......."
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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I remember the first time I saw Miranda Lambert -- before she became a star. She was competing on the first season of the show Nashville Star. At that time she was a genuine, amazing country music talent. Real country music. She wrote beautiful songs and sang like an angel. Nashville turned her into a Las Vegas act. But Nashville has been screwing with country music for decades. Think Eddie Arnold. Or Nashville vs. Bakersfield. Murder on Music Row...
You’re right, but “mate” just doesn’t have the same verbal impact. :)
I normally use the other F-word when I say that but this is a family forum.
If only Hank had kicked his habits and lived a long, productive life . . . makes me wonder.
Same if Buddy H and Patsy had survived
Oh, yeah!
That was the “last call” song at a bar I went to in college.
Good times.
Ironically, the genre is now bigger than ever. Somebody must like that twangy rock and roll.
"Y'all take it from an ol' Country doctor ......."
Chet Atkins once apologized for what he did to country music. The apology was nice, but I still wish he hadn’t inflicted string sections and all the other bad changes on us.
Someone should write a real country song using this thread for inspiration. I like the Naugahide Country in a reply.
Truth is there’s tons of great stuff being produced. It just doesn’t get on the radio. Blame the rise of media conglomerates homogenizing everything to a lowest common denominator they can program everywhere.
Most of the country songs today are actually a version of rock.
Now I am an old school metal guy, but I can see the shift.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg&feature=kp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAFjBSPUQJk&feature=kp
I became a country music fan when I started actually listening to the lyrics in music. The best stuff is in country. Bob Dylon can’t even compete.
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Hahaha my wife loves that crap.
'Right there next to "Acht-Sechs-Sieben-Funf-Drei-Null-Neun" ....
I don’t think the Xers or Millenials will have much in the way of “nostalgia” Their “music” (also TV and movies) pretty much sucks and there’s hardly the talent and phenomena associated with The Baby Boom Culture which makes many of us teary-eyed yearning for the Oldies Days playing on our CD compilations.
I agree, and while they certainly have talent, that slick stuff, along with Lonestar, isnt country.
there is a huge resurgence of music like the music from the band: Nickelcreek... They have a monthly 3 hour show at the Largo, here in Los Angeles. And while what they are doing is not country, it’s a heck of a lot more honest and heartfelt, with country and folk like melodies, than all that slick stuff coming out of Nashville.
Big folk music thing happening at the moment.
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