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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When roadhouses were WAY out on the road...
About 60 seconds into the vid and looking at the words as he was singing them tells me why I could NEVER be a rocker. Angry. Screechy. Just not my style.
Nevertheless, thank you for sharing the example with me. I do admit to being ignorant of the rock genre. Now I know why — I have a strong aversion to it! ;)
Sturgill Simpson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTnmWu0_W6w
I downloaded a few of his live shows off of etree.org that are fantastic all the way through and give me hope for not only for (what use to be) country but music in general. Cheers!
Zac Brown is doing the same thing.
And here is possibly the last time Murder on Music Row will have been played live...wish I could have been there...Great stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzj1xMFsZ0c
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