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There are still some great turns of lyric from time to time. I'm sure if you thought about it you could name a few.

Also, musical twists - I like: "Whose bed have your boots been under" I love the meter, altrhough I get a sense of deja vu when I listen to that, was that a retread?

"I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then" while a fairly bland cookie-cutter song, has that classic country turn of phrase.

There are a few others.

I play in three bands. One is all country, one does some country and one is rockabilly. I’m exposed to a LOT of country music and my take on this is that it’s not that there is no good country any more. Rather, there is so much of it that there is plenty of “pop crap” that is labelled country because somebody threw a fiddle or steel guitar in it somewhere - and the good stuff gets lost because it is often just not as “flashy”.

Meanwhile, I really like some of Miranda Lambert’s stuff and this girl lives near me (at least her dad does). Though you’ve probably never heard of her, she writes some great lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8TvrQX7ps
Her dad, who is down the street from me, is one of the guys arguing in the video.

And this song. This is good stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGDCY1AaYDI

http://www.reverbnation.com/hannahellis

But the thing is, you gotta strike the right nerve and get the right promotion or nobody ever hears you.

My country band in Seattle a few years ago opened for a couple of guys that I’d never heard of. We got to enjoy the back stage buffet and sit in the bus and talk with them a while. The comical thing is that because I had not moved to KY yet, their drawl cracked me up. They sounded just like what you would think these singers would sound like. It was very real and they both had a strong “awe shucks” personality type. They seemed like sincerely nice guys.

But what I noticed was that they were being marketed like new cars. Some “power from the top” had christened them the next big stars. I didn’t see anything special, but they were, in fact pretty good and seemed comfortable in their own skin on stage.

And now pretty much everyone has heard of Eric Church and Luke Bryan.

But Hannah’s songs are some of the best I’ve heard, musically and lyrically speaking. It’s a real shame people like her don’t get the same attention. But sometimes they do. The name of the game is perseverence and, frankly, the future of Country has not been written yet, for people like her or for country music in general.

I like it too

Americana music

They even have their own awards show

Sadly....they are 95% flaming progressives

Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle. McMurtry...Hubbard....Cross Canadian....Reckless Kelly.....Alison Moorer...Lucinda....

Even darling Elizabeth Cook

I try to ignore the commentary