> > Now see, you go and say something like this which raises my opinion of you > to a high level. Anyone who is an enemy of country music is a friend of mine.
I've got a question for you, are you opposed to all country music or just the nonsense that is played on most country music stations. For example do you hate all of the below?
Bluegrass Lyle Leavitt the music featured in "Oh Brother Where Art Thou? the music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys? late 19th century country music which is tied to 16th and 17th century English music?
Dan M.
I can take Lyle or leave it, but I do like Lyle Lovett, I have two of his CD's. Bluegrass I can stand for maybe a song or two. Wasn't the soundtrack bluegrass? I mean I know the difference when I hear them, but the music from the movie was not good. BWatTP? don't know the name. I don't go out of my way to listen to it, but when I'm searching the meager radio signals here in SOUTH central EASTERN PA, I've alighted on some stations that play older CM and will listen, from the real old stuff up to the 70's. Older than that? I'm lucky I know regular symphony music from Bach and others (which I like).
So is it the newer stuff? Yes. I hated Randy Travis, George Straight, that dick from Oklahoma...those fires were forged in two years of living in Texass. At least the big cities had normal radio stations, better than the crap I have now.
I've said this story before. I certainly can't name drop like you Dan ;-) but I know people in the music business. My friends and family play guitars and other instruments. (And I'm just too dumb to learn. At least I can sing.) Two are professionals but most are normal people with normal jobs who play in bands on weekends as a hobby not a job. And four of them wrote a song that became a country music song of the year. The rub was, they didn't perform the song or get any credit for it; it was stolen from them. (Which is great in the fool's world). I mean, they played it and recorded it but the artists who made it famous said it was theirs. My friends sued and after a nice long court battle where they proved that they originally composed the lyrics and music, they got 40k, before lawyers fees. The thieving country band doesn't even have to print that they didn't compose the song on future records, they can still claim it was theirs. Maybe that's all a songwritter would have gotten, but to have to put up with the other crap, like having your grandmother call from western Canada and say she heard your song on the radio, you must be doing great!.......
This also happens in other music genres and other artistic endeavors. Heck, I live in a town that claims it originated Mickey Mouse, that Walt Disney stopped here on a train trip (true), and saw the toy in a store window (conjecture: the toy was made here at that time and does look like MM, but whether WD saw the toy can't be proven ).
It wasn't the final nail, CM in it's present form has been dead and buried to me for a long time, but it is another reason to hate it even more.
Kevin T. - VRWC At the firehouse.
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